Because it sounds like FUD at this stage, until somebody provides a shred of evidence.
There are people who care more about their private data and others that care less. If you find Chrome trustworthy, go with it. For me a closed source browser is not an option.
That's like saying your school could install cameras in the toilets - so they must have?
Or that your landlord is secretly going through your stuff, because he has keys?
Actually - the Chromium browser project is open source:
It's what Google Chrome is built on - you could just compile that if you wanted. (You lose out on a bunch of integrations - but it sounds like that might be what you want, anyhow).
If he is known for doing such things, yes, I have to expect him doing so.
> Actually - the Chromium browser project is open source.
I know and Chrome is not.
I'm sorry to be so blunt, but I see a lot of conjecture and wild paranoia - but not much factual reporting.
I really must be a wild paranoid if I would ever think that a big corp or gov would read the private data that I throw into their cloud.
You think it's paranoid to expect it, I think it's naive to not expect it.
Why is it that anyone that question the decisions regarding a project are instantly tarred as "haters"?