This is egregious and the only people who can get away with it are these Big Tech companies. The legal analysis is moot. They have operated with impunity for decades. The law, especially with AI, only applies to organizations that Big Tech and the government want to eliminate. Rules for thee, not for me.

I feel this is great in combination with an agent like OpenClaw or Hermes.

So typical. Just imagining the consequences for someone with chronically low disk space, like me. Luckily I'm a Firefox person, though I use Vivaldi now and then.

Google abuses users.

You can also ask why the US government fails to protect the users. Corporate dictatorship at its finest.

I can't read the article (503) but does anyone know why someone calling themselves thatprivacyguy is installing Google Chrome?

Why the hell can't this just be an extension in the first place? Why does it have to be bolted in by default? Why does Google and by extension its employees have this constant need to assault and violate me with this garbage?

That's crazy just another reason I've been degoogling my phone.

it also installs an entire remote desktop stack on your computer without consent, and video codecs, and pdf reader... what is new here?

Besides the numbers being stupidly overblown, this post shows why Europe is in a unstoppable death spiral.

I can't for the life of me understand how this browser has become the world's most used. It's literally from an ad company.