Cite? I've never seen this, and I use Firefox regularly.
> Example 3: Installing Chrome unasked as drive-by installers when you install anything lots of freeware, because Google paid third-party developers to host Chrome as a spyware-like installation in their installer.
Again, cite? Because, again, I've never seen this.
I don’t have articles to link to, but I’ve experienced this on numerous occasions.
Me working with manual testing where we regularly set up clean environments from scratch probably has helped me notice the problem more than a regular webdev.
Because this is absolutely a problem.
> Example 3 cite
I’d say Google it, but it really is a known and documented problem:
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=google+chrome+bundled+installers&t...
Goggle is in no way playing fair.
While Chrome has the goal to destroy everything else.
Example 1: Google Chrome spam on youtube, gmail, every website on the internet. I can't count the amount of times my parents called and asked why Google asked them to "upgrade their browser" (hint: It wasn't a new Firefox-build).
Example 2: Sending email SPAM to all Google-users where they are advised to install Chrome if they ever sign in to their Google-account on a new machine using anything except Chrome.
Example 3: Installing Chrome unasked as drive-by installers when you install anything lots of freeware, because Google paid third-party developers to host Chrome as a spyware-like installation in their installer.
Google is using spyware techniques to deploy their fucking browser. Google is literally working on killing all other browsers.
And for the good of the web, this should be reason enough to instantly and permanently uninstall Chrome.
Had Microsoft done a fraction of this for anything they did, you'd seen social media and the EU causing a shit-storm. How come Google gets a free pass?