Chrome here switched from Firefox not looking back.

Google's entire business model is predicated on taking *your* information and habits and selling it to other people. Period. They know more about you than you do. And the guise of "free apps" makes it even more insidious imho.

I still have a gmail account as that is pretty much necessary for youtube (though I've switched to vimeo for hosting videos). I still use their news feed but have been migrating to other solutions. I avoid their apps, don't use maps (even though other solutions aren't as good), don't use analytics.

It is essentially pissing up a rope, but individuals have a choice. I think google is the most dangerous entity around right now.

Used Firefox a lot but switched back to safari on the macbook as it seems more energy efficient.

fify,
Chrome = The search engine that shall not be named!





I've heard good things about this one:

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I prefer Chrome. Firefox is #2. At home, I will not touch IE, though I'm forced to use it at work.

Google-Berg: Global Elite Transforms Itself For Technocratic Revolution
Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
May 13, 2013

The secretive Bilderberg Group is currently undergoing a major transformation that will see it and other high profile networks merge under the banner of Google as the elite accelerates its plan to consolidate its technocratic agenda.

This past weekend, Infowars reporters Paul Joseph Watson and Jon Scobie visited the luxury Grove Hotel in Watford, UK, site of the 2013 Bilderberg Group conference set to take place June 6-9, a clandestine annual gathering of over 100 of the world’s most influential power brokers in the fields of politics, academia, technology, business and banking.

The investigation was prompted by our sources, who advised us to visit the Grove in advance of Bilderberg 2013. This is part one of what promises to be a developing story as the pieces of the jigsaw fall into place backed up by years of Bilderberg tracking and research.

What we discovered was groundbreaking and represents one of if not the most important development in Bilderberg’s 59 year history.

Put simply, Bilderberg is merging with Google under the stewardship of Google CEO Eric Schmidt, a regular Bilderberg attendee. Google’s annual Zeitgeist conference, which has been based at the Grove since 2007, immediately precedes the Bilderberg Group conference by a matter of days.

Backed up by prior research, we were able to confirm in conversations with hotel managers and others that the Grove is now a central base for Google’s agenda to control the global political and technological landscape.

The talk in the Grove is not of Bilderberg, that is barely a footnote, the real excitement centers around Google Zeitgeist, which was described by the London Independent as, “a cuddlier version of the Bilderberg Group, the supposedly shadowy network of financiers that holds a private annual assembly, recast in the image of our new tech masters.”

Bilderberg is indeed being recast as ‘Google-Berg’ – partly because of efforts on behalf of activists to tear away the veil of Bilderberg’s much cherished secrecy, and partly as a means of re-branding authoritarian, undemocratic secret gatherings of elites as trendy, liberal, feel-good philanthropic-style forums like Google Zeitgeist and TED.

In reality, behind the scenes Google is using such forums as proving grounds on which to form the consensus that shapes the globe. We were told directly that the organizers behind the so-called “Arab Spring,” which began in Tunisia and Egypt, which as we have documented is in fact a series of contrived western-backed color revolutions masquerading as organic uprisings, were recruited by Google and subsequently attended the Zeitgeist conference at the Grove.

It’s also well documented that the man responsible for kick-starting the “revolution” in Egypt, which led to the installation of a Muslim Brotherhood dictatorship which the west can now use as a justification for further intervention, was Google employee Wael Ghonim.

Google’s growing influence within both the British and American governments is also well documented. Eric Schmidt was a campaign advisor and a major donor to Barack Obama’s presidential campaigns. He was also reportedly offered the post of Treasury Secretary within the Obama administration. In Britain, Google representatives have met no less than 23 times with Conservative Party officials since the general election in 2010. David Cameron addressed the inaugural 2006 Zeitgeist conference before going on to become Prime Minister four years later. British Chancellor George Osborne paid a visit to Zeitgeist just weeks before he also attended Bilderberg 2011 in St. Moritz, Switzerland

Chrome and FF. I pretty much stopped caring about data collection. I am sure that MS and Apple are right on Google's heals in that regard. Don't want a DB with your name on it, stop using computers and credit cards. Good luck with that.

Tim Cook and Brin/Page have polar opposite opinions on privacy and data. The companies reflect that. While data is collected, how and where it goes is very different.

It's funny, I used to be a die-hard Android guy, and I still they they make a decent phone OS. I also use gmail, and google.com, but the whole "Chrome = google" thing is one of the main reasons that I don't use Chrome.

I use Firefox 99% of the time, even at work (kind of shocking that it's an option at work, but it is). I feel fairly confident when I next purchase a PC, I'll be getting an iMac. I guess then, I'll probably mostly use Safari, but even then it won't be 100%, because my wife occasionally has issues with Safari correctly rendering a website on her fully up to date Macbook Air.

I tried Mosaic, and I have even used Lynx (as a last resort and curiosity more than anything else).

At work we have IE, that's it.

They recently upgraded from IE whatever to IE11.

Near as I can tell, the only difference is that all the stuff I was used to being on the left is now on the right.
Why can't they leave my stuff alone?

No worries here.

I've got an insider edge:
https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/3pcmo3/facebook_will_now_notify_you_if_government_is/ (spying on you)

I've bailed from FB as well (other than band/biz page). Their business model is exactly the same.

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That reminds me, I need to send in a check to re-new my Pelican subscription before it expires. ;)
j/k

I'm using Chrome right now. I switched from Firefox about 6 months ago because "work" installed a restricted version on my LT. :rolleyes:

Chrome is lightweight and it works well but I don't like the way Favorites are displayed.

Guck Foogle
Chuck Frome

FFox for browser and DDGo for search

I use Opera.