Blink-Dev – Intent to Deprecate and Freeze: The User-Agent string
The irony of Google purporting to protect users' privacy while at the same time:<p>- Chrome is still shipping with 3rd party cookies turned on by default (Safari and Firefox have them off, by default)<p>- Chrome usage stats are sent to Google including button clicks. This is admitted in the Chrome privacy policy.<p>- Chrome on mobile <i>automatically</i> shares your location with your default search engine i.e. Google<p>- Chrome sort of forces a login …which shares browser and user details history with Google<p>- Google redirects logins through the youtube.com domain to enable them to set a cookie for YouTube as well as Gmail or whatever, every time you login. Naughty stuff.<p>So the stated reason for the change doesn't appear to make sense, suggesting that something else is going on.<p>It amazes me that more people aren't calling Google out on this.