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Only governments can tame this beast now, way too big and too rich for any startup.

I noticed several chrome instances running on "Task manager" almost all the time. Used Chrome maybe months ago. So I uninstalled. Who knows what they were doing, collecting. I trust them as much as I (would) trust a hustler on the old 42nd street

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yeah. I decided to avoid chrome at all costs when noticed that when you install chrome and have firefox already installed , chrome automatically without user’s acknowledgement installs some mysterious google plugin which does not sure what. To verify it , I reproduced same scenario again and plugin was installed again. After that I uninstalled chrome and avoid google products as much as possible.

This is interesting. Could you share more information about your setup: What operating system you use, Order of browser installation, and the name/id of the plugin would be a good start.

It would be even greater if you could upload a zip archive of the plugin.

You better back that up with additional data, because for now it sounds unbelievable. When was this, what OS, which Chrome version, were you able to replicate on a clean install, what was the name and version of the Google plugin, and put a few screenshots on imgur too.

Chrome does not allow you even to turn off auto-updates. Why? Because then they can't use their new tracking and advertising techniques on you.

Or rather, because people can't be trusted to update their browsers and turn their machines into a danger to themselves and others. No need for assuming malice.

It is not an assumption, rather fact!

to reply to subcomments: I will try to reproduce it soon, meanwhile read this thread [1]. I don't remember exact plugin name, so cannot say this is identical to my situation but still it proves that Google installs Firefox plugins without user's acknowledgement and should not be related with Firefox in any way.

[1]: https://superuser.com/questions/156913/what-is-the-google-up...

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