I get that Google is dominant in web search, but that's mainly because Google's search results are actually better, privacy concerns aside.
But what makes normies so eager to download this shit onto their desktops rather than use Firefox or Opera, IIRC it has 60% dekstop market share and rising.
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Because it's advertised as being faster.
> privacy concerns aside
Fuck off retard.
Because it's fucking fast, that's why.
>tfw when you see someone browse Google and Youtube while signed into their Google account
Because normies don't give a fuck. They're NORMIES, they're supposed to do this kind of dumb shit. You can find many successful brands which is dumb as bricks but they're very successful because normies love normie stuff.
P.S. I'm a normie, at least by 4 Chan Standards. This is my first comment on the website.
it is forcibly bundled in installers. Even driver discs try to puke Chrome into your hard drive. IE bundling was fucking smalltime compared to Chrome.
Advertising
>Why do normies use this shit so much?
Because just about every piece of "free" normie software also installs Chrome on the side, and normies are terrible at opting out of that kind of shit.
Because Firefox is a pile of crap.
>normies
hello fellow redditors
I didn’t know Google shills advertised on Jow Forums.
>say fact
>get called shill
Shoo shoo fossfag
Needs more education threads on the evils of Google.
It was even worse, I used to be a Quorian.
it is faster
>60% dekstop market share and rising
probably comes preinstalled on a bunch of shit
It's the best browser. Google never used my data in a way that gave me any problems, so I don't care.
This was the reason for me
chromium.org
Because Chromium is faster than Quantum, and that's the most popular browser. Also, it's made by fucking Google, meanwhile Firefox is made by literally whos
Isn't SPDY dead because of HTTP2 or QUIC?
>at a friend's house
>they boot up PC
>straight up windows 10, not even LTSC
>cortana enabled
>no classicshell
>unironically uses windows store apps
>open up browser
>google chrome
>signed in to google account
>google homepage
>adblock stop sign visible in top right corner
how do i dispense the redpills, Jow Forums? is it too late?
Literally no problem there. Sounds like a comfy normie set up. Enjoy raising your blood pressure at trivial shit.
itt. normies telling other normies their botnet is better
install gentoo
>visit google search homepage
>"chrome is faster download it here now!"
>normalfag installs it
>download some random program
>option to install chrome together
>google develops some technology that works better with chrome
>show the websites that work with it in the first pages of search
And normalfags are dumb.
>but that's mainly because Google's search results are actually better
Because when it came out it was actually "faster" and head less resource eating.
Around the time that google really started getting big, they had an awesome reputation among consumers. When they came out with a brand new web browser people were really looking forward to using it, and it turned out to be functionally good.
Capturing those early adopter "nerds" coupled with intense marketing and bundling rapidly increased their market share in the browser field. At this point it's a positive feedback loop. Everyone uses chrome so whenever someone gets a new computer, or a kid gets old enough for their first, they automatically go grab chrome because that's what everyone uses.
Advertising helps, but no one specifically uses it because it's fast. At this point it's only marginally faster than Firefox, and in some cases even loses, but normalfags aren't going to go timing different browser to find the best one.
>normie
>European people history
What kind of inbred mongoloid searches like this? Look for European history and take a screenshot.
>Look for European history and take a screenshot
Ok. Few more maps, niggers still present. The absolute state of jewgle.
Is it perhaps a common theme among search engines?
Hmm doesn't seem like other search engines think niggers arerelevant to our history.
this
Yeah, even yuropoor leftist search engines don't seem to think niggers belong to ourhistory.
How could it be? Even china, who openly talks about the effectiveness of jewish propaganda practices, doesn't (yet) push the nigger-centric agenda.
It's pretty much just you cucked burgers who even bat an eye when it comes to the apes. So much so that it visibly impacts your everyday life.
>muh redpills
Nigger just because someone has a different preference to you doesn't mean they're uninformed. Stock Windows 10, Chrome, Google accounts, Cortana, the stock Windows shell, the Windows Store and AdBlock work fine for 99% of users. Not everyone is an autist who needs what you use.
Futhermore, if you pirated LTSC which is the only way to get it as a non-corporate client, you've probably used an "activator" on it which means you're currently getting raped by botnet far worse than what stock Windows 10 users experience.
When everybody was using adblock plus, adblock plus slowed chrome down like a bug in molasses.
Everyone on Jow Forums used adblock plus, and all the chromefags swore up and down it was just so incredibly fast compared to firefox.
When you replied "meh I don't notice it." they would post a link to some benchmark that showed chrome was faster. Of course those benchmarks were run with no extensions added.
It's called the power of suggestion.
>or Opera
What the fuck is wrong with you? Of course they're going to use chrome if your alternative is a Chinese hijacking.
>Firefox
Quality went to shit because SJWs took over and they care more about purging opponents than maintaining software.
Why are people even so concerned about google knowing what you search for and what videos you watch so much?
Nobody gives a shit about what some cave troll is looking at on the internet.
If you are doing something you don't want to be known to people, of course you would be using something else.
But having every goddamn piece of your shit "anonimised" is just bullshit.
PLEASE someone help understand your huge ass privacy concerns.
>PLEASE someone help understand your huge ass privacy concerns.
It's more of a matter of principle. There are very real word reasons to be against data collection, but those problems manifest rarely.
To me, I like having control over what information others have about me. For example, if I was going through a rough time in my marriage, I wouldn't tell anyone save for my family. If I start looking for advice online on this subject, google algorithms will figure out what's happening, and possibly begin showing me targeted ads about marriage counseling or something. You may not see that as a bad thing, but I'm just against the idea of losing power of who has your information.
Also remember that once someone else has your information they can do whatever they want with it. It's possible for Google to misuse data like Facebook did with Cambridge analytica, or some rogue employee can go download tons of user information and sell it.
No it's not. I use Chrome and Firefox daily and there's no noticeable difference in speed.
IMAGINE using a browser other than Chrome
>inb4 google shill
>inb4 pajeet
>inb4 normie
In the beginning, Chrome was a truly revolutionary browser. It legit was faster than the competition, but that wasn't the primary concern. The primary concern was the fact that it introduced a slew of iconic and highly important features that are commonplace in every browser today. The omnibox, the ability to rearrange tabs, the embracing of themes and extensions, it came with all the plugins you'll ever need already baked in, etc. With 2008 Chrome, the entire UI of the traditional browser was completely rethought from the ground up, from the inside out, and for a long time, Chrome was objectively better than the rest. They flipped the browser upside down (both figuratively and literally. Chrome presents tabs on top, and omnibox on bottom whereas other browsers did it the other way around. This is symbolic of their view of interface design.) That's why so many people switched.
Over time, however, Google's vision of what Chrome should be got tangled, vague and messy, resulting in a weird bloated mess of a browser that has undergone several identity crises. First, Google wanted Chrome to be a 'light, fast' browser that "jesswerkt" but as Chromebooks came into existence, Google decided Chrome should be a mini operating system. So they added shit like Chrome Apps (90% of which were basically just glorified bookmarks, the other 10% were just extensions with a new skin) and a secondary app drawer just for Chrome. Then later, sometime around 2015, they decided to backpedal and turn Chrome into just a browser again, but by the time that happened, it was pretty much already too late. Chrome had become a resource-heavy, bloated, confusing mess that would be hard to later strip down to its bare minimum in a way that was user-friendly. Chrome OS, on the other hand, remained not only bloated but became fragmented and glitchy as well, once Google started allowing people to install Android apps even though they obviously weren't built for laptops.
And that's where we are now.
sometimes when I get out of shower I wangle my dick over my desktop webcam so the CIA/FBI/NSA/Google can see how superior I am
tl;dr - Chrome was at first a radically redesigned browser that was built with web 2.0 in mind, then became a bloated mess, but by the time that happened, it was already the most popular browser in the entire world. So now Google can do whatever they want with Chrome and no one will care.
It's Facebook all over again.
Because fucking nerds shilled the shit out of it to normies in the early days and then OEMs started bundling it.
Saves all my passwords and it's synced between all my devices and I can easily retrieve all my passwords when installing a new OS.
Quality post user, thank you.
Not just privacy (which is a must if you are a critic) also killing competition and choices. Enjoy the future where you have to watch ads to do stuff. Where google tracks your location. Become a slave (no choice forced)
>no classicshell
Classic Shell has been abandoned for over a year now. He gave up because every Windows 10 feature update broke it.
So people would rather give up various practical tools, than accidentally give up info they would be uncomfortable with being in hands of someone you they don't know and mostly could never harm them even if gotten in wrong hands. (Again giving data is optional, and you can use alternatives for sensitive info)
Seems like a bit of an overkill
big company can pay for lots of ads and fake research.
Firefox sync does the same. To me chrome's only thing is the remote desktop addon.
There's a nifty thing called adblock, changing to other services (brought to you by captilaism (tm)), and what the hell is google gonna do with knowing my location? Sell it to my mother?
No problem. It truly is a shame. Google had a really good thing going and ruined it.
The reason people refuse to switch is mostly because Chrome is so heavily integrated into their digital data. All their bookmarks and passwords are stored in Chrome. It's too hard to move at this point.
Safari is in its renaissance, something I never thought I'd say. Safari's future is actually starting to look pretty bright. Microsoft, as always, can't make a browser for shit. Firefox is a fine alternative as well.
>adblock
big browsers could kill adblockers if they so pleased, google was under fire for that just one month ago
>what the hell is google gonna do with my location
keep a tab on your exact location all the time and give it to the government for a few extra shekels
chrome was the first browser to behave like it was actually designed to interact with the internet. it played nice with responsive designs and websites that use flash. it also was the first to implement a lot of nice features like bookmark synchronization and had a cool-looking minimal interface. still does, actually. idk what happened but chrome turned to shit and now people are kind of stuck with it.
Youre too young to remember how Netscape and then Explorer worked with normies
isn't there a community fork?
>browsers could kill adblockers
Yeah they could, and then we would switch to other browsers that didn't kill them, or make our own, or use outdated versions (or just use surf)
>government would know my location
and what's government gonna do with my location, sell it to my mother?
If I don't want my location to be known, i can just switch off my stuff, use tor maybe? not carry my phone around all the time maybe?
Well, there ARE searches and videos that could flag you as a Person of Interest.
safari sends ping to all bookmarked sites when you open the app.
At that point sites block alternatives. Forced 1min brainwash. Every 30mins ad plays unless you subscribe.
if big companies do it everyone has an excuse to do it
do you seriously not realize how bad it is for the government to know your location all the time
>switch off my stuff
they could very easily keep the gps on even if it's turned off
>not carry my shit around
yeah good luck calling 911 during an emergecy
>tfw i need to use Chromium because every Firefox-based browser is slow for me
Capitalism tm. Start. Become big. Reach peak. Become monopoly. Downgrade service and milk every sheep.
Slow where? You got 6 year old hardware?
At that point alternative sites come up, that don't brainwash people. Do you not understand how the free market works?
If I'm going to be doing something that I don't want my government to know, I'm pretty sure having my tracking gear not be on me is a valid enough choice, or in other words there is no alternative nowadays. But I don't see a problem with having the government know that I am lying in my bed masturbating at a certain time of day, or going to the market at a certain time of day.
Enjoy the abuse man you dragging us all.
It's kinda funny how I've literally been using Firefox since I was a child (middle school) but back then it was for the themes and for my bookmarks toolbar and that was about it.
...I used to use way more websites back then, I remember using my toolbar to quickly check like 10 completely different websites. What the fuck happened?
Free market -> slaves, trash everywhere, no laws. Sounds awesome.
Please explain your logic
>Nobody gives a shit about what some cave troll is looking at on the internet.
What some cave troll looks at in his own home has been one of the most hotly contested issues throughout history. There's a lot of people who want to throw those cave trolls in jail or sue them.
>If you are doing something you don't want to be known to people, of course you would be using something else.
Everyone remotely normal is doing things like that, so there you go, you've proven yourself wrong.
>What the fuck happened?
Jewgle realised that to retain their monopoly and push web standards down the shitter, they needed an ad campaign to convince normies that Chrome is the “””fastest”””” and most secure webbrowser. Who cares about customizability and open source? That’s for smelly geeks. Then when they got their >50% market share, they started shoving “log into your browser account” at every turn
I use ungoogled chromium
This. If you want normies to stop using Chrome and switch, Google needs to spectacularly blow their lead and suffer a PR disaster every week like IE did.
That’s not going to happen this time around.
>I used to use way more websites back then, I remember using my toolbar to quickly check like 10 completely different websites. What the fuck happened?
As the internet became increasingly corporate-based and less based on content aggregated by tiny, independent sites, the tiny sites shut down and users were forced to move to broader, more polished sites. This facilitated the rise of giant platforms like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter as well as slightly smaller sites like Reddit (and yes, Jow Forums is also a big part of the problem), and these sites are still much larger and more popular than tiny niche forums like unfiction.
Basically, the internet is becoming less fragmented as people migrate to "Walmart" type sites where you can talk about everything at once.
Not gonna use some tranny shit.
Example. Cheater wins in the game of survival. Having pretty much infinite pool of buy power. Using that to abuse the system. Brainwash with ads. Buy government. Allow slavery.
Trash.
If it is cheaper to pollute than to pick up trash or do something to it. Manufacture plastics bc it is cheap. No money in recycling no money flow to clean so no cleaning. Why would some poor worker pay thousands to abusing cleaning service when they can die or leave somewhere where there is no trash. until no place to go.
I remember using FF because IE didn't have tabs.
if u care about trannies then google > firefox, pick ur poison. I would take the one that doesnt abuse me.
You're assuming the system already collapsed before your example started. A free market system requires, by definition, laws that enforce the free market system and stop the cheater.
Your next move will be to say "but what about America" and I'll point out that it's just like how America is not a real democracy but instead a republic, and it even uses representative electors to elect presidents. America is currently using a hybrid economic system.
Google services push people in to bubbles. Sheeps get brainwashed and dont even know that yt recommendings can be reset.
Ads on any site push propaganda of the biggest exploiters out there (the ones who have high profit margins bc loyal sheeps only bye their and ads make em buy). the ones who know better will be a minority that slowly dies as the sheep fund the killers.
How regulated representative democracy is different from your free market?
Google removed SPDY support in Google Chrome 51.
Mozilla removed it in Firefox 50.
Apple has depreciated the technology in MacOS 10.14.4 and iOS 12.2.
Nobody uses Chrome on their desktop/laptop. They use Interchode Explorewhore or they use Safari because the hordes of plebs only use MS or Apple products. Even less people use Firefox.
Chrome is only popular as a browser because of Android
because google didn't force brendan eich out. that was faggot-loving mozilla
Thats the power of brainwash. No alternative information is seen or understood. Ads say it is the best but in reality thats the one that is ripping you off. Marketing power kills your alternatives.
The "too big to fail" problem is the best example. In a free market, it's necessary to allow any company to go out of business if it screws up badly enough. In the modern American system, banks got so large they were too big to fail. Therefore, the government bailed them out. These bailouts defeated the purpose of the system and rewarded bad behavior by bankers. That basically guarantees companies will continue to engage in bad behavior and try to get the government to subsidize them.
I unironically miss the internet the way it was back then, there was something special about it that just doesn't feel like it's around anymore.
Understood. Whats the next subject?
Dont press ads on google the biggest abuser is most likely dominating that space. Better of never trusting any ad.
Yes, it's called the eternal summer user.
That's when your close knit group of anons get drowned out and replaced by the absolute pleb hoards so everybody just walks away.
Also wait for a great internet split, as we all know China and EU will eventually just split the internet and you'll have to pay $ like long distance fees to use some other countries network
>forcing out a guy who created JavaScript
nothing of value was lost. notice how his crypto-mining browser that is Brave is based on the Blink engine. The fucker doesn't care at all about keeping the web free, all he cares is about attracting VC money for his money laundering business.
Can we alter the course? Will privacy die? Will monopolies become the norm?
When we reach AI kill bots minority will succumb with the sheep. Powerful people will embrace the new world order.
>normies
>Google's search results are actually better
get out
>muh AI kill bots
people have been prognosticating this for decades, yet we're only taking babby steps to such a goal. Now we only have glorified voice assistants that only work when they're connected to the internet.
I dont think it is that hard just have turrets with movement detection and aim system then most people wont even bother to resist.