Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by netwanderer2 on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:29AM
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Google should be very careful with these aggressive tactics. They are quickly losing many users. There are other options available nowadays, including browser like Brave. I personally have switched back to Firefox. I still like Google but they are falling into the same old trap of not listening to their users. The moment they let that escalated and there are other viable options then the game is over.
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Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by xvector on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:29PM
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> They are quickly losing many users.
While I'd also like to think this, the reality is that any number of users they've lost would be negligible at best.
Re:Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync
by netwanderer2 on Monday September 24, 2018 @02:46PM
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For now yes, but the tech world has showed us similar lessons before. I bet Blackberry and Nokia executives said the same thing when Apple introduced the first iPhone. MySpace was very confident when they deemed Facebook number of users was negligible as well. Unfortunately privacy issues are only getting bigger in the future. That's why I said Google should be very careful not to tread down the same path. Only those who learned lessons from the past will survive. I love Google so I hope they won't get too comfortable with data mining activities and lose track of keeping their users who are the real data sources.