Chrome now directly tracks users, generates a "topic" list it shares with advertisers.
  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Yeah early on when chrome was released I was a big proponent of it. But that was in Google’s earlier days before they adopted Microsoft’s EEE policy

    • danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      Really? I always hated it. It was such a resource hog compared to Firefox, and that only got worse as Firefox improved.

      My main Linux distro at the time, Fedora, wouldn’t even ship Chromium because of how difficult and inefficient it was to package. It leaves a bunch of Google crap on Mac too.

      Was it better on Windows or something? Because it’s always been crap on Linux and Mac.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        In 2008? Sure, chrome was lightning quick, especially with V8 on the JS side, granted this was on Mac. It was only a matter of time before it became google’s ad platform though

          • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I’m a JavaScript dev by trade. V8 was light years ahead when it came out, the specs on runtime compilation were off the charts. I’m not defending google by any means, but the work that went into V8 is how nodejs was created, and Firefox has adapted many of those learnings into its own JS engine. Google was and always has been a corporation for profit, but their engineers really pushed JS into a new stage with their engine, whether or not the browser around it was great