I was mostly joking, since I can't imagine anyone buying a Google Chromebook in an attempt to avoid Google. But, for the sake of argument, I do think it's genuinely straightforward.
The internal details are slightly complicated, but from a user's perspective, all you have to do is press one button from inside settings, open a terminal, and type "sudo apt install firefox".
That's not as easy as downloading a setup.exe file, but I think it's pretty straightforward. ChromeOS will even associate URLs with Firefox, if you choose. Then, even if you open Chrome, it will redirect all links back into Firefox.
Just a small technical tangent of my own. :D
do you really think your "data" is valuable? or was this just an idea put in your head by journalists?
ponder that for a moment
provability
interoperability
reimplementability
The battle for privacy is lost on so many fronts; I do not believe it can be won, any longer. Even the language used by proponents for privacy shows this. What Google and others represent is not the opposite of privacy, that would be transparency. I've never heard Google's (nor Facebook's) practices designated as transparency friendly. Perhaps there is a good word for it, but as an ESL person, I've at least never heard of it.
As programmers we should know all about the benefit that proper naming provides. And things should be called by their proper name.
I am not for privacy, I have nothing to hide. Rather, I am against the exploitation of data I generate. So this comment can be taken as either a call to arms and naming the enemy, or as a statement of my ignorance of the queen's own english :p