🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2012-09-29, core <core-usenet@spamless.spook.homeip.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Sep 2012 16:37:03 -0400, Mark Anderson <mea@nospambradnylion.com>
> wrote:
>
>>In article bje@ripco.com says...
>>> Obnoxious maybe, evil, probably not.
>>> 
>>> From what I understand (which is little), Chrome is unique because it's a
>>> sandboxed browser. Other words, you shouldn't be able to hit a malicious
>>> website which can grab your contacts/address book, plant viruses and so
>>> forth.
>>
>>The thing that ticks me off is that I wasn't even using Chrome for 
>>anything.  I installed it to try it out, didn't quite like it because I 
>>have everything just so with Firefox, and just never bothered to 
>>uninstall.  When I saw chrome_installer.exe in the http requests I had 
>>completely forgot I even installed Chrome so it was a complete WTF for 
>>awhile.
>>
>>Also, like you said about accidentally doing something and having it go 
>>haywire, after reviewing more logs there might have been something I did 
>>that triggered the google updater to go haywire.  I'm not that 
>>interested in figuring that out however.
>>
>>Any software that does this I consider malicious.  Software should only 
>>speak when spoken to.  So if Chrome is not being used, it means I don't 
>>give a crap about any of its updates.  I remember awhile back installing 
>>Google's Picassa on a linux box and the damned program, before letting 
>>me set the gallery directory, scanned my entire hard drive for images.  
>>Picassa got deleted immediately once I heard the hard drives stop 
>>crunching.
>>
>
> Google is evil. It wants to own your device no matter if it's a pc, a tabler,
> or a phone.
>
> I had Google Maps installed on  my tablet. The latest update came out and the
> list of 'permissions' it wanted was absurd. It wanted everything. I deleted
> the APP entirely.  If I need a map I'll go to the web.

Use ForeverMap or OsmAnd. 

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Kristian M Zoerhoff