Interesting admission:
> Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).
> Chrome exists to serve Google search, and if it cannot do that because it is regulated to be set by the user, the value of users using Chrome goes to almost zero (for me).
1) Using a non-chrome browser to access gmail? At least once a week get a popup telling me the experience is better in Chrome and I should switch.
2) Not logged into google in safari on my phone. During a routine google search, telling me with a modal to login to improve the search experience.
Its exhausting and I started backing away from google because of it. Ok, tell me once or maybe tell me every few months thats fine...but every week the same darn message. Too much.
I don’t use Google for anything I can avoid and I get nagged for it all the time. It’s exhausting and the amount of data that most websites seem to be freely sharing with Google just through analytics and those annoying sign on prompts is absurd.
Why is no public interest lobbying to stop this intrusion of privacy?
The google meet app seems to include an entire gmail client for no reason and seems to show it rather than go back to your calendar / mail.
Mail loads a web view, rather than the app (say slack) or even safari. Which means half in email links go nowhere, because I’m not logged in / able to access the destination via the web view.
And they always want to continue linking my personal and business account within the same app, and then messing up which one should be trying to access. No matter how many times I remove my personal, it always reappears. Often via a “authorise access” pop up while logging in via a different device. Surely it’s a security issue to run 2FA via a device that has actively logged out and removed the account from it.
I’m looking forward to them being broken up. It’s becomes too hostile.
- uninstalled all google apps from my iphone
- cleared icloud for google apps
- reboot
- install a google app I've never installed before (say one of the 70 different chat apps)
- somehow I'm logged in
this is a huge privacy loophole
They've somehow got a problem on both ends of the spectrum.
That's why this exists: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search...
I'm sure the Chrome people see the ads people as a wallet for their development as much as the ad people see the Chrome people as a vessel for their ads.
In the end the ads people bring in the money so they'll probably get their way, but last time this case came up on the front page there was an example of the quick search feature testing well with users (clearly originating from thr Chrome team) clashing with ad delivery, and only after the ad people raised an issue did Google turn back the changes. This suggests to me that the ad people have some influence on the decisions the Chrome team makes, but the two teams clearly have very different goals in mind.
Yes, they have different goals, but you're downplaying the amount of influence from ads that this incident suggests—when the org was forced to choose between keeping a feature that was shown to serve users or scrapping it to make the ads team happy, they scrapped it.
In the end it matters very little what the Chrome team would prefer if the corporation consistently overrules them.
I did not know this existed.
There's something a bit sad about it.