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Comment by enriquto | Hacker News Reader

Trusted by whom? I find it easier to trust a random github repo author than the developers of chrome.

Based on what? Google has no reason to steal your credit card. A random Github user might.

The problem is upstack, Google does have incentive to put everything and kitchen sink into the browser. Such byzantine code is impossible to fully secure. It is also much less understood than usual operating system API you'll deal with in stuff pulled from github.

Not even speaking about bugs, guess what will this cause in combination with users conditioned to blindly click OK on security warnings:

https://www.fixyourbrowser.com/browser/google-chrome/google-...

Chrome is one of the safest pieces of consumer software ever produced.

You might want to re-evaluate your threat model there.

Safe by what measure? If you mean safely track your pixels movements, fingerprint and identify your OS/browser version/etc, allow WebRTC to leak your IP address and download torrents or mine crypto in the browser.. then yeah I guess it is safe. Safe for advertisers and malicious actors to exploit users.

I'm pretty sure all of these are problems you have with the web or with an advertising based business model - not Chrome.

Note that all these problems apply to Firefox, Safari and Blink as well.

And most (all?) of them apply to other platforms (cite: TikTok, plenty of viruses on every platform).

An app can do all of that and far more when you use it.

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