Google Chrome’s Users Take a Back Seat to Its Bottom Line
This article is confused about what users want.<p>EFF and politicians just hate cookies. If only users knew the website used cookies they would choose something else they cry out. A billion cookie warning clickthroughs later - nope.<p>If only we made the cookie warning scarier with GPDR, including lots more details about how the scary cookie will be used. Nope - click click click go the users, permit, OK, Allow etc.<p>Aside from EFF hysteria here, let&#x27;s focus on what users might want.<p>Users want<p>* their computers to be free of malware (looking at every company out there that installs bloatware and malware every chance they get on PC&#x27;s and phone&#x27;s with totally bogus privacy policies),<p>* want to be safe when they visit a website (not make it easy for a random website clicked on from a phising link to go the ransomeware route),<p>* want to be able to browse in incognito mode from time and time if they want to leave less of a digital footprint.<p>* want to be able to browse relatively safely without their ISP and or govt selling all their data about exactly which pages they visit (google&#x27;s push around SSL may help here a bit, and these privacy invasions tend to be huge and at utility scale),<p>* Maybe would sort of like certificate authorities not to give out chase bank SSL certs to random middlebox DPI companies (google&#x27;s aggressive stance on CA ecosystem after seeming total inaction by folks like firefox and IE and Safari).<p>* Help move folks to proper 2-factor (non-SMS based) to avoid account hijackings<p>* While making lots of things easy (auto suggestions everywhere etc).<p>In short, stuff that helps users avoid messes in their day to day life, but users seem happy to give up a lot to have maps, search, new devices etc all work together relatively smoothly.<p>Depending on how you count, google is cleaning up in this space BTW. Talk to some businesses who&#x27;ve made the switch to chrome + google apps about the number of phishing &#x2F; ransomware  issues they have (if they were another companies email service + ie &#x2F; firefox).<p>Check out the absolute trash results (active malware) bing can return for basic search terms.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;fyi&#x2F;bing-is-pushing-malware-when-you-search-for-chrome&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.howtogeek.com&#x2F;fyi&#x2F;bing-is-pushing-malware-when-y...</a><p>Seriously, bing should run the landing pages of adds through google&#x27;s filters.<p>Users privacy is under absolute attack. Of all the people attacking this privacy (from governments to ISPS and more), google is not top of list. It makes for a good clickbait headline though.<p>BTW - Apple in same boat on enviro issues, despite all the Greenpeace attacks on apple, if you looked at the enviro story and workplace labor issues in android space you&#x27;d be shocked.