“I guess you could say that I was quite the fan of Google Chrome,” Federico Viticci writes for MacStories. “Before switching to Chrome last year, I didn’t have a ‘favorite’ browser or ‘browser of choice’: I just kept jumping between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, trying out all the features that the three major players had to offer on OS X. I’m pretty sure that, at one point, I even tried to go a full week with using Opera.”
“A few weeks after publishing my review of iOS 7, I decided to uninstall Chrome from all my devices and move back to Safari as my main and only browser on my iPhone, iPad, and two Macs,” Viticci writes. “I’m not looking back… MacStories readers and The Prompt listeners have asked about my seemingly sudden decision to stop using Chrome and go back to Safari. That’s a legitimate question – I was the one evangelizing Chrome and its feature set, criticizing Safari and Apple’s choices with iOS 6.”
“I don’t have a problem with Chrome the app; I have a problem with Google the company behind the browser,” Viticci writes. “For me, Google has crossed the creepy line… Google’s technologies are seriously impressive, but they revolve around business models and motivations of which I’ve had too much.”
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It took him this long to realize???
Chrome (going back years) never renders fonts correctly meaning it’s always unusable for me.
I don’t use Google anything. not even search. What ticks me off is YouTube now controlled by Guilty Google and their efforts to tie you into Guilty Google shenanigans.
i love all the content on youtube but it’s a horrific piece of trash when it comes to user interface and experience, absolute garbage.
I agree. Run the Safari extension “clea.nr YouTube”. It will make the experience far more bearable.
Thank you I’ll check it out!
Available here:
http://clea.nr
Google were experimenting on me tonight over at Yahoo. They are playing with a collapsable overlaying menu on the left of the window. It ends up blocking the videos unless you use a wide browser window. From watching me use it, I think they figured out it’s a total POS. I hated it and kept hiding the damned thing. I logged in again later and they’d REMOVED it. Let’s hope it stays removed.
“Our customers: Our guinea pigs.” I hate you Google.
gawd I can be thick: Google were experimenting on me tonight at YOUTUBE (not Yahoo <-WTF).
“Our customers: Our product!”
Couldn’t agree more! They are always pestering for use of real names on it.
GAG!! = Go Away Google!!
If THIS site required real names, there might not be as much off topic political junk in the comments.
You must be an Obama lover.
Cancel off the straw man argument. Stick to the topic.
What does that even mean? That only liberals are willing to put their real names behind their arguments? Hardly.
I dont use anything from shady Google i hate the company. Proud to be Google free since 2010
The two OO’s in the Google logo should be made in to eyeballs because Google wants to observe and know details about everything you do on line.
Google is driving me absolutely up a wall. Can we go back to 2011 before they pulled all this crap, and I could still figure out what keywords people were entering to get into my sites? I cannot image blindfolding all my clerks, managers and blanking the in store cameras so my staff can’t see who is in my physical store and what they are looking for, but without keywords, we are flying blind online. This is especially true for some technical parts sites, build to order sites and complex product sites that used to be able to trigger a customer assist chat break-in based on keywords… now Google keeps this information for itself unless the user has come through adwords. If they are going to totally datamine my customers, please share.
Google and Facebook are Wall Street’s weapons against free market economics. Throw in the NSA and you can control any control or destroy any economy.
1 to the author’s opinion. They’ve definitely crossed the creepy line and I don’t trust that they’re not tracking and logging the hell out of me any time I use any of their products.
Aw man they’re SO creepy. I bought a shelf for my refrigerator 6 months ago. A lot of sites I go to have ads on them that STILL to this day keep offering me refrigerator parts for my exact make and model refrigerator. SPOOKY CREEPY. I feel like I’m being followed down the downtown streets of a business district with hobos constantly slithering out of the dark whispering “heeeeey kid, buy another part for your lovely reeeefrigeraaator, pleeeeeease…. *gasp wheeze*”
Aqualung!
A great album I must say.
That’s exactly how I feel about Chrome. I understand it’s actually a pretty good browser, as a piece of software. But everytime I think about giving it a shot, I think “will Google start harvesting all my page views”? I’m not usually prone to such paranoia, but that’s Google’s business these days: provide free software, harvest as much data as possible from the way people use it.
——RM
All current browsers suck at something. Safari sucks just a little less
I hate all these articles self-important blowhards write like “I’m leaving X”, “I returned to X”, “Why I’m done with X”, “Why I’m not coming back to X until they do what I say”…
It’s nice Federico came back to Safari, but it’s a personal browser choice, and I don’t care about his browser choice in order to validate mine. Of all important things to discuss, and he wants to trumpet his browser choice!
I have switched almost exclusively to the Epic browser which is based on Google Chrome but has blocking software integrated into it. Now when I visit Mac daily news it says that it has blocked 45 or 50 different tracking methods and cookies. I am sure that at least half of those are associated with Google. You must use a different search engine due to the fact that Google automatically encrypts your searches so they still get it all. I use the epic search engine and it has almost completely stopped me from using Google for any reason in any way
http://www.epicbrowser.com/
Now join this creepy Google with the cheating Sansung, and you get something stinky…
*Samsung
SAMEdung.
“If you like your browser, you can keep your browser. Period.”
I wonder what Google did to chaff him so raw? Just a guess, must have disclosed some personal information that he was most interested in keepng to himself.
Chromium instead of Chrome. Same browser with far less Google.
Do a web search for epic browser which uses the chromium core and then adds even more anti-Google anti-everybody else features that leave you very comfortable in many ways I, think. but hey theyre all watching us anyway
You can also roll your own in X-Code with the Chromium code.
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/MacBuildInstructions
it was passed to me,,,,
did not know what was to come, as far as my knowleleg of what was out there, or in there as far as local computer files
I will scrub and use only epic for all web surfing that is routine mundane or otherwise involved in nefarious activities.
once i have the time to start over Side
For me, Google has crossed the creepy line…
“You, our customers, are our product which we offer to anyone who wants you. You’ve been sold.”
Humans sold in a market. What does that remind me of? Hmm… 😯
Banned Google Chrome on my new Mac never thought it anything special anyway and couldn’t understand the hoopla. My old Mac is still stuck with Google trying to get outward connections on it which i can’t use Little Snitch to permanently reject without qustioning me due to Googles ‘clever’ set up. Tried to lose all the cookies but its still there annoying me.