The description in the screenshots is so vague that I wonder just what it is that Google are going to do. Are they really going to ship user browsing history across to their data mining services (I have a feeling they wouldn’t dare risk the wrath of privacy advocates by doing that… or would they)? Does it only apply when you’re using Google services (something we kinda expect anyway)?
Either way, it’s not like I needed any more reasons to wean myself off Chrome as it is - it’s a horribly bloated piece of software that loves killing my machine periodically.
I’ve been happily using Firefox on Android and on my work computer for ~6 months. Last weekend I popped open an older computer I have and was surprised at myself when I was disappointed Chrome was my primary browser.
I forgot just how awful Chrome is. It kills battery and constantly causes the discrete GPU to kick in at seemingly random times.
I’m actually surprised to hear this about Chrome. I don’t actually use Chrome, but I leave Chromium running 24 hours a day on three machines (2x Linux, 1x OSX) and haven’t had any problems with it being bloated or killing the machines.
TBH, I almost wish it were bloated and killed my machines because it’d be great motivation to quit using it, but to me, Firefox feels more bloated, is less responsive, and the interface is klunky. And the alternative browsers I’ve tried feel like half finished wrappers around webkit (midori, arora) or are just skins over Chromium (opera).
GMail and Chromium are the only two Google products I use on a regular basis any more, and I’d love to quit Google products all together.
Interesting, my experience has been that later versions of chrome are more laggy and bloated than firefox. I wonder if it varies from machine to machine.
Over the past few years I’ve found Chrome to get slower and slower - running Safari makes the performance degradation even more obvious. Unfortunately there are a few Chrome extensions I really like, which is why I still use it (admittedly, those extensions are almost all available for Firefox, so I should probably give it another try).
Hah, I feel the same way. Chrome has slowly been getting slower, but it does still feel faster than Firefox (at least on my Linux system). I’ve stopped really caring about finding or building an “unbloated” browser since my interest in HTTP has been rapidly declining anyway.
The full page goes into more detail and gives you the option to opt in, keep current settings, or keep your current settings and go through a full privacy audit.
The description in the screenshots is so vague that I wonder just what it is that Google are going to do. Are they really going to ship user browsing history across to their data mining services (I have a feeling they wouldn’t dare risk the wrath of privacy advocates by doing that… or would they)? Does it only apply when you’re using Google services (something we kinda expect anyway)?
Either way, it’s not like I needed any more reasons to wean myself off Chrome as it is - it’s a horribly bloated piece of software that loves killing my machine periodically.
I’ve been happily using Firefox on Android and on my work computer for ~6 months. Last weekend I popped open an older computer I have and was surprised at myself when I was disappointed Chrome was my primary browser.
I forgot just how awful Chrome is. It kills battery and constantly causes the discrete GPU to kick in at seemingly random times.
I’m actually surprised to hear this about Chrome. I don’t actually use Chrome, but I leave Chromium running 24 hours a day on three machines (2x Linux, 1x OSX) and haven’t had any problems with it being bloated or killing the machines.
TBH, I almost wish it were bloated and killed my machines because it’d be great motivation to quit using it, but to me, Firefox feels more bloated, is less responsive, and the interface is klunky. And the alternative browsers I’ve tried feel like half finished wrappers around webkit (midori, arora) or are just skins over Chromium (opera).
GMail and Chromium are the only two Google products I use on a regular basis any more, and I’d love to quit Google products all together.
Interesting, my experience has been that later versions of chrome are more laggy and bloated than firefox. I wonder if it varies from machine to machine.
Over the past few years I’ve found Chrome to get slower and slower - running Safari makes the performance degradation even more obvious. Unfortunately there are a few Chrome extensions I really like, which is why I still use it (admittedly, those extensions are almost all available for Firefox, so I should probably give it another try).
Hah, I feel the same way. Chrome has slowly been getting slower, but it does still feel faster than Firefox (at least on my Linux system). I’ve stopped really caring about finding or building an “unbloated” browser since my interest in HTTP has been rapidly declining anyway.
You’re no longer interested in the Internet?
Sheesh, get with it! All the hipsters are using Gopher these days.
That’s right.
Yeah, god forbid a bunch of nerds who are already constantly yelling at them start yelling at them some more.
Here’s the page in question: https://accounts.google.com/signin/newfeatures?cbstate=1&cbflow=promo-10-en
The full page goes into more detail and gives you the option to opt in, keep current settings, or keep your current settings and go through a full privacy audit.