Really? I got rid of Chrome when I saw Google-stuff constantly connecting to dif...

PhantomGremlin · on Sept 1, 2015

I keep Chrome around just for the occasion that I ned to use Flash.

Chrome happily installs from an OS X standard account, it does not need to be installed by an administrator. As such, it probably isn't able to put stuff "everywhere".

BTW, maybe it's just me, but I have installed Chrome as its own user. That makes it more difficult for it to spy on my day-to-day activity.

D4AHNGM · on Sept 1, 2015

  ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/
  ~/Library/Google/GoogleSoftwareUpdate/
  ~/Library/Google/Google Chrome Brand.plist
  ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.google.keystone.agent.plist
  ~/Library/Caches/Google
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Chrome.plist
  ~/Library/Preferences/com.google.Keystone.Agent.plist

Nowhere outrageously surprising, really.

pki · on Aug 31, 2015

Have you try Chromium?

dunkelheit · on Aug 31, 2015

not safe either: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=786909

simoncion · on Sept 1, 2015

As shitty as that move was, it has been reversed and has been reversed for many months.

JupiterMoon · on Sept 1, 2015

It happened once it could happen again.

simoncion · on Sept 1, 2015

You can say that about any software project, man.

JupiterMoon · on Sept 1, 2015

Maybe. But most of them don't involve transmitting my microphone directly to Google servers.

simoncion · on Sept 1, 2015

1) ...that you know of.

2) Frankly, Google is far more trustworthy than almost any randomly selected software company. (Don't forget that there are far more software companies out there than either of us are aware of.)

3) Unless you've taken the time to configure a MAC system, software that runs as you can access any data and transport mechanism that you can access. That's a fact of life. Anything you run on your computers can also act as a little snitch.

JupiterMoon · on Sept 2, 2015

1) Agreed. As soon as I hear about any software doing similar even by mistake I consider whether to stop using it.

2) I sort of agree with this. Google certainly don't want to sell my keystrokes on the black market. However, they do want to store them and learn more about me and my personal autonomy and privacy mean that I don't want them to have all my data.

3) Which is exactly why one should be careful what software one installs!