iMessage could be great except it falls back to SMS when the other phone is Android or there is no data network available. Also you lose the privacy once your messages are backed up to iCloud.
I tried Chrome long ago. It was a fine browser. But the it tried to log me in way too hard and gave me the creepy feeling of being followed in a dark alley. I’m sure I could have turned off that functionality but the fact it even existed was unsettling and I knew then that this was not the browser for me. Not surprised in the least by these revelations.
That lengthy blog post is a perfect example of everything that is wrong with C++. Using modules should be a trivial part of the language. Instead, we have to take a detour via historical Objective-C (a language already superseded) and there are enough caveats to make a lawyer blush.
To me anyone dispensing security advice while using Chrome loses all credibility. Sure, it’s not an insecure browser per se. But it facilitates Google slurping my data and that falls within my threat model.
I’m sure there are many interpretations of the motivations behind this. Regardless, the resulting reduction in carbon emissions can only be a good thing.