Chrome

[Misky1951]

I've been using Chrome for awhile and like it.

There's been several recent articles about Chrome security to the point of recommending uninstalling it. Not sure if the recommendations about reinstalling it later.

I understand most search engines have potential issues. So I'm not sure if other engines are any better.

Any comments on Chrome?

[Babubhat]

Compare. No issues with it. Use DuckDuckGo for privacy

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[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Chrome uses algorithms and metrics created in part by your usage, to provide you with suggested results and ads (using AdSense).

So for instance - if you are vehemently anti-lined paper (making this as politically neutral as possible here)...

and you prefer JVM, WTRQ, DooflNewsNetwork to do most of your anti-lined paper reading...

and you type in "governor rejects lined paper"

You'll find results that will generally reflect your point of view - including JVM, WTRQ, and DooflNewsNetwork for the recommended "news" on the latest about governors who reject lined paper.

After awhile, you'll discover that you could just type in "lined paper" and notice that MOST of the results will have an anti-lined paper stance, and will often be from the above-mentioned news sources.

That's because you've basically instructed Google to remember your preferences and spit them back to you whenever you search for that topic.

So in a sense, it's checking on your privacy. But in another sense, you've instructed it to do so.

[jdulej]

Chrome uses algorithms and metrics created in part by your usage, to provide you with suggested results and ads (using AdSense).

So for instance - if you are vehemently anti-lined paper (making this as politically neutral as possible here)...

and you prefer JVM, WTRQ, DooflNewsNetwork to do most of your anti-lined paper reading...

and you type in "governor rejects lined paper"

You'll find results that will generally reflect your point of view - including JVM, WTRQ, and DooflNewsNetwork for the recommended "news" on the latest about governors who reject lined paper.

After awhile, you'll discover that you could just type in "lined paper" and notice that MOST of the results will have an anti-lined paper stance, and will often be from the above-mentioned news sources.

That's because you've basically instructed Google to remember your preferences and spit them back to you whenever you search for that topic.

So in a sense, it's checking on your privacy. But in another sense, you've instructed it to do so.

I see very little that's good about this approach. It just perpetuates the divisions we find ourselves in by becoming so narrow-minded.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I see very little that's good about this approach. It just perpetuates the divisions we find ourselves in by becoming so narrow-minded.

That narrow-mindedness is the result of users choosing to prefer narrow-minded viewpoints. Google isn't making them narrowminded. It's giving them what they're asking for.

If you want the world to have an open mind about lined paper, then you need to find a way to make everyone else use the search engines differently. They're putting in anti-lined paper as their search criteria because that is what they WANT to see responses about.

Google is doing nothing more or less than what they're asking it to do.