If you want privacy and security then you cant use the internet, the moment you connect you lose privacy and security.

Hahahaha I couldn't agree more. But I keep hearing everyone complain that its not right for google to sell our data

Just use Firefox, my man. Google ruins everything it touches.

When you sign up for any service, you agree to their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy, and when you do that, you give them the right to do whatever they want with your data.

There will never be a browser that has 100% security. Because there are too many people out there that would treat that 100% as a personal challenge.

It is not the best browser, but I use Firefox to help. It works not so bad on the desktop, but on mobile it sucks.

hahaha i'm talking about google not selling your data. Would people pay $5/mo for google chrome if it didn't sell data?

5$ a month plan to not share data, would eventually turn into a 5$ plan where 50% of your data is sold and a new 10$ plan to not share data.

sounds like you would be interested in $5/month if that was a set price with no chances of it increasing?

Fuck no..

I use Apple/safari which has a smart user focused privacy policy, Google will always sell your info, even if they charged you not to.

Safari very likely does exactly the same thing chrome does. Here is the evidence that Firefox doesn't, which is not provided by google or apple for the other two.

Depends wildly on the privacy policy, not that companies are known for following them.

Apple does not sell user data like Google does, using Safari is absolutely unlike using Chrome.

Firefox is great tho!

I'm sure their privacy policy says so, but I wouldnt trust that.

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I use Firefox but I don’t think Google “sells” data in the way others sell it, do they? I mean, I wouldn’t put it past them (or any firm) but it seems like the real money is in collecting the data and then not sharing it so you (and only you) can sell ads. Like, if Google knows you regularly Google tacos, they sell ad space for the “taco affinity group” to Mexican restaurants. If they just crudely sold user data, ad buyers wouldn’t necessarily have to go to Google.

That just goes for Google and a few others, obviously. Companies that aren’t targeted ad juggernauts have different incentives and probably sell data left and right. It just seems like Google and Facebook and probably the next tier (like The NY Times Company, maybe?) have an incentive to hoard data — which is its own problem — and none to share data.

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$5 a month with no chance of increasing is not how businesses work. The stockholders of such company would demand price increases or at least the pressure from inflation would.

Maybe if you made a non for profit org?

There’s already a version of Chromium that offers as much privacy as possible:

Brave

https://brave.com/

And get this, it doesn’t cost anything. In fact, if you want you can actually be rewarded for being served ads.

I use Brave, and im super happy. Now they also Block the popup of approving cookies.

I love Brave. Use it on mobile and and computer

Ain't that the truth.

I think the future of Web browsers will be content personalisation.

It's clear that Google is unable/ unwilling to solve the problem of search engine junk (bot sites, pay walls, poorly written affiliate link driven blogs, seo manipulation).

A future browser could reorganise Google search results based on human up / down voting.

I think everybody (businesses included) is very aware of how bad Google search has become. A nimble start up with no revenue commitments could easily launch a subscription based browser that does just this. I would definitely be up for paying a small fee to have this service.

People always focus on and debate privacy. Whereas, the real problem we suffer in 2022 is functionality.

Google dominance is only a bad thing if end users (average Joe searching the web) can't also control and manipulate the data as well.