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Comment by mrmondo | Hacker News Reader

Certainly lots of features I'd enjoy but I couldn't find the source and builds logs so I was a bit dubious - after doing some research it appears to be closed-source and proprietary software.

While I'm not saying it's bad because it's closed source, a web browser has access to a _lot_ of personal (meta)data and is certainly not something I'm about to trust to some black-box software that's not under review by the many.

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Not saying your point is invalid but in the same context Google has access to all your stuff, including correlations to your mobile and location information and is not afraid to share it, as do others ie ISPs, possibly Microsoft.

So for browsers controlling meta data on user end has limited value without rules and laws around user data.

Also: the most invasive parts of the analytics / tracking / privacy-invading aspects of Google Chrome are closed source.

You can use Chromium.

Sort of.

Browse Against the Machine | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439098 (May 2017)

> brynedwards: There are also patches for Chromium that remove Google integration and improve its privacy features (with links) | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14439668

Indeed, it’s quite concerning how little this is discussed or talked about in a lens that’s interesting to the average person.

I don’t use Google Chrome - mostly for that very reason.

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