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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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