- One of the most popular ways for running surveys / forms (Google Forms)
> this one particularly concerns me because paired with Chromebooks, it brings kids into an entirely closed Google ecosystem very young
I'm not too concerned as many other big corporations (Apple, Microsoft) are fighting this ;)
The other corporations are only fighting small battles, but you can't compete with free, which is how Google gains its foothold.
"Each site you visit is checked against the Safe Browsing list on your system. If there's a match, your browser sends Google a hashed, partial copy of the site’s URL so that Google can send more information to your browser. Google cannot determine the real URL from this information." -- https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/privacy/#safe-browsing...
There's no way Firefox would be ok with sending all their user's visited URLs to Google.
(Disclosure: I work at Google)
How do I disable this in Firefox? Is this the section about "Content Blocking"?
- a major way of embedding web fonts (Google Fonts)
- a hugely successful cloud document suite (Google Docs)
- a safe browsing service, making them effective gatekeepers of what can load in Chrome (Google Safe Browsing)
- an ever growing system for schools to manage assignments (Google Classroom) - this one particularly concerns me because paired with Chromebooks, it brings kids into an entirely closed Google ecosystem very young