Re:Chrome is Not the Standard
by paulryanrogers on Thursday December 21, 2017 @02:23PM
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While that may be true, defaults matter too. Even as a privacy conscious techie it's possible to forget the X different settings one must change with each new install or device.
And for some dissidents or researchers those defaults could be life or career ending.
I don't think that it can be argued that Chrome is privacy-friendly. There are dark patterns built into the browser.
Prove it or show code! This statements sounds like a conspiracy theory.
Re:Chrome is Not the Standard
by flyinghamster on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:20PM
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Exactly. I ran the beta and when it became the release version, I changed my update channel to "release." It has not reverted any settings I've made.
I also had the Shield stuff turned off (my choice), and it hasn't been reverted, nor did the Mr. Robot extension ever show up. I agree, though, that that was a Bad Idea.
Re:Chrome is Not the Standard
by def_true_false on Thursday December 21, 2017 @06:57PM
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If you delete Chrome's shitty preset search engines, it adds them back with every update.
> Not only are these experiments enabled by default, but updates have been known to re-enable it if you turn it off.
Chrome has some troubling defaults but Google never decided to flip the default search engine or turn on any phone-home feature once it has been turned off. Even though they had/have the power to do so, they know people won't trust Chrome if they ever tried to do that. In my book that's more trustworthy than a vendor that decides to use updates to surreptitiously enable features that users disabled.