Edge is similar in some ways, but modern Chrome is not a web browser per se but a web browser clearly built by Google with Google’s corporate interests at heart.
The disconnect for many - including myself - is that we remember the first few years of Chrome. How revolutionary it was and how it provided a beautiful path off ‘the terror’ that was Internet Explorer. Modern Chrome is not the same browser, philosophically. Modern Chrome is a Google web browser and integrates the best - and increasingly by default - with Google’s many products and services.
Funny how history can be subjective. I remember Firefox in this exact role, several years earlier prior to Chrome, which is why I've never received Chrome as some kind of saviour, only as additional competition.
iOS is designed to sell hardware, unlike Google's products.
Fast forward to today and Google has managed to do to itself all that the Scroogle campaign could realistically have hoped to achieve and then some:
- techies like me go out of our way to avoid them. I just spoke to a friend of mine during lunch and told him to think twice before using Gmail as a single misplaced comment on the Internet can get you locked out with no recourse except hoping for friends on social media if you are so lucky.
- People are still making Chrome-applications just like they made IE6 applications but we are turning the tide now it seems and I see a growing trend that loathes the Chrome-only trend.
- Regulators are circling in the air above.
- etc.
I fix this by deleting all cookies matching “google” after signing into YouTube, but sometimes I forget to and it infuriates me to see my name in the corner when I search for anything.
Even on iOS they use a browser window to make you sign-in so it cookies up your entire device.
Thankfully the quality of Google Search results has been going downhill for years so it's honestly not that much of a difference to switch to DuckDuckGo as the default engine now.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=292980
Slowly after they gained monopoly and became sure that they are going to exist in browser-space , they now don't care about these tracking bits present in the browser.
Is criticism of Google being silenced with flagging?
