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Comment by bearjaws | Hacker News Reader

It really does, and their implementation is an actual racket.

The best example is that you cannot install Chrome through the app store on MacOS. In its place? A bunch of garbage apps that people install thinking they're Chrome. So much for quality control.

Millions of users have braved the risky, buggy and deadly internet to install Chrome as a result of this. Nobody cares.

Tell me, if millions of Mac users can download apps successfully, with little malware, why is it the phones need all the protection?

We all know the real answer involves 27-30%.

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Your best example is people can't easily install this spyware that misled them about spying, until forced to come clean?

"Based on these Google representations, throughout the Class Period, Plaintiffs and Class members reasonably expected that Google would not collect their data while in Incognito mode. They reasonably understood 'You've gone incognito' and ‘Now you can browse privately’ to mean they could browse privately, without Google's continued tracking and data collection.

Google could have disclosed on this Incognito Screen that Google would track users and collect their data while they were browsing privately, but Google did not do that. Instead, Google included representations meant to assure users that they had ‘gone incognito’ and could ‘browse privately’ with only limited exceptions, none of which disclosed Google's own tracking and data collection practices while users were in a private browsing mode."

https://www.wired.com/story/chrome-incognito-mode-privacy-wa...

[Deleted, missed that parent commenter was talking about macOS.]

That's not the macOS App Store. There is no version of Chrome that is installable from the macOS App Store because Google does not publish Chrome in the macOS App Store (probably owing to the sandboxing that would be required and Chrome wants access to all the things).

This is for iOS and not macOS. Why did you share this?

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