🚀 go-pugleaf

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.