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It is still a Google product designed to capture your personal data and the least privacy friendly of the most popular browsers.
I always like to ask – because I'm genuinely curious – when people say these things, what it is that (allegedly) makes Chromium so bad in this area relative to others. Assuming one does not sign into Google's sync service and opts out of obvious data collection with the user-facing toggle (similar to any other browser), what's left? I hate Google as much as the next guy, but I'm always interested in understanding what makes the browser so suspicious to people.
 
I always like to ask – because I'm genuinely curious – when people say these things, what it is that (allegedly) makes Chromium so bad in this area relative to others. Assuming one does not sign into Google's sync service and opts out of obvious data collection with the user-facing toggle (similar to any other browser), what's left? I hate Google as much as the next guy, but I'm always interested in understanding what makes the browser so suspicious to people.
It’s cool to hate things like Google, Windows, and X/Twitter but yet the majority of the population uses those products. Due to their size you get more people looking at things like license agreements, etc and point out presumably shady practices but they’re not the only one. Hell, people turned on Firefox overnight because of misused verbiage. It’s easy to shine a light in a dark room on a single cockroach and comment on how disgusting it is but there’s dozens more around you that still lurk in the shadows nobody cares about.
 
It’s cool to hate things like Google, Windows, and X/Twitter but yet the majority of the population uses those products. Due to their size you get more people looking at things like license agreements, etc and point out presumably shady practices but they’re not the only one. Hell, people turned on Firefox overnight because of misused verbiage. It’s easy to shine a light in a dark room on a single cockroach and comment on how disgusting it is but there’s dozens more around you that still lurk in the shadows nobody cares about.
For sure, I'm just interested in a slightly more technical look at Chromium, specifically. That is, when people so constantly complain about it being "worse" for "privacy, tracking, etc." than others, I'm curious what they think they mean by that. They could all be entirely correct, but I'm just not seeing it, so I like to ask.

For the record, Windows deserves all the hate it will ever get and then some.
 
Chrome works just fine with Facebook. Doesn't Facebook Messenger fail to work properly with Safari as Meta do not support Safari??
Yes, but just using Facebook I still had the up/down sidebar disappear randomly making me have to re-refresh the page. When I click on a notification it remains highlighted
 
I still use Firefox on my Linux machine (can't afford a Mac yet). Fast enough for me and I feel safer using it.
I have 3 browsers - Safari, Brave, and Firefox. I don't think there will be a day that I don't install Firefox.
 
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