Normally it goes "Chromium is open-source, and the telemetry in Chrome isn't actually that bad". (Which it probably isn't, but Chrome Sync is bad.)
And now someone points out another major privacy problem and it all switches over to "Why would you ever use a browser from Google, if you cared about privacy?".
I am wondering, if these are PR people from Google and this is a marketing strategy, to always paint the extremes. Sort of as a last stand to make people feel like they either have to give up all Google software or none, whereas even giving up some Google software would already improve your privacy. (And there is no human being who doesn't care at all about privacy.)
This is a UI issue. It is translating stuff when you would prefer it didn't.
Plenty of users need that translation service, and use Chrome precisely because it offers translation. Imagine using hackernews if you didn't speak English for example.
The issue here is that translation is happening when it shouldn't. There is a setting for that, but it's fairly hidden away deep in settings. The UI issue is that it isn't more obvious.
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[ 3.6 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] threadNormally it goes "Chromium is open-source, and the telemetry in Chrome isn't actually that bad". (Which it probably isn't, but Chrome Sync is bad.)
And now someone points out another major privacy problem and it all switches over to "Why would you ever use a browser from Google, if you cared about privacy?".
I am wondering, if these are PR people from Google and this is a marketing strategy, to always paint the extremes. Sort of as a last stand to make people feel like they either have to give up all Google software or none, whereas even giving up some Google software would already improve your privacy. (And there is no human being who doesn't care at all about privacy.)
Plenty of users need that translation service, and use Chrome precisely because it offers translation. Imagine using hackernews if you didn't speak English for example.
The issue here is that translation is happening when it shouldn't. There is a setting for that, but it's fairly hidden away deep in settings. The UI issue is that it isn't more obvious.