Because Google is abusing their market position to push Chrome which spies on you whether you like it or not. They use your browsing habits as a data source even in incognito mode. It's not a conspiracy they're quite proud of it and have openly talked about it as a legitimate feature.
And actually? There aren't really alternatives anymore. Google abused their market position on search to push Chrome to the point where there are three browser engines actually in use anymore: Chromium, WebKit in Safari and whatever Firefox's is. Even Microsoft gave up and Edge is built on Chromium now. All the other third party browsers are also Chromium.
We have a very real risk where web standards get dictated by Chrome and everything becomes Chrome-specific to the point where other browsers don't work with most websites. Just like what Microsoft did with IE in the 90s.
If you like Chrome as a browser, that's fine. But don't use your like of it to defend a megacorp that doesn't care about you. Drop that emotional connection you have from back when it felt like Chrome saved us all from IE.
I get it and I too used to love Chrome for that reason. But the critics who said, "we shouldn't be trusting Google, I'm sticking with Firefox," well...they were right. Maybe they weren't right back then, but it became true.
Just like the privacy nutters. It didn't USED to be reasonable to think you'd actually need to hide from US three letter agencies. Pre-9/11, pre-Patriot Act bullshit, US intel agencies were actually thought to be fairly responsible. Everyone knew they held onto 0 days in secret to use as tools in cyber warfare. But the community largely felt that they weren't overstepping and they weren't going around doing dragnet surveillance and spying on people without warrants. They used to follow the process correctly.
And then it changed. And now it's worse as we have an incoming administration that wants to actively police what people say. And a Supreme Court that may go ahead and try to invalidate constitutional amendments, calling them unconstitutional. That should literally be impossible but the norms have broken down so far that if SCOTUS just said, "the constitution is bunk, we need a constitutional convention, we have the power to do this because we said so," no one would stop them.
The first amendment is on the fucking line and it's because of corporate influence and lobbying that this whole thing went to shit over the past two decades.
And here you are, being a pathetic little fanboy and worshipping Google because you hate "M$" or some shit. Stop trying to suck the dicks of the people who want you to be their literal slaves.
