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ocdtrekkie on Oct 27, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Google Chrome is preparing a widget with shopping ...

I think we give ourselves more credit than it's due. Average users get Chrome shoved down their throats. Plenty of users are happy to use Edge or even IE until they update Adobe Reader and find Chrome is now their default browser.

Or how when I signed into a Google account once for five minutes on my iPhone in a private Safari window and immediately got an email from Google inviting me to set up Chrome on my new iPhone...

marketingPro on Oct 27, 2020 [–]

Chrome on iphone is just Safari with a Google logo iirc.

ocdtrekkie on Oct 27, 2020 | [–]

Kindasorta. Chrome on iOS is using Safari's rendering engine, yes. But it's still collecting data on you to send to your Google account, just like Chrome proper.

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