Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
Posted on 02/15/2022 10:13:39 AM PST by Red Badger
Chrome, the greatest surveillance tool ever devised? Now in a convenient OS for your old computer to monitor you even more closely? I can’t wait (/sarc) Chrome sends every site you visit, every mouse movement, keylogs of keystrokes; all sent to you friends at google. Creepy, what could go wrong? They just want to sell you stuff. It’s not like they manipulate searches, manipulate trending and control information to control you. They would never do that.
Why not just get linux and keep some of your privacy intact?
BKMRK.
Most of my activities revolve around deleting Google’s access to my life.
Chrome OS actually works fairly well, but Google’s ability to monitor what you do on any computer running Chrome OS—no thank you!!
My 2009 HP is running just fine with Win-7 Pro v64, and I have a back-up identical unit on the basement electronics’ shelves. But this is a viable alternative, yet I don’t trust Google on anything.
So are you totally screwed if the Internet goes down?
Yet another platform with which Google can spy on its users!
I wonder if these commies realize that some of us are not stupid.
Thanks to Red Badger for the ping!
You’re right: “ANY computer running Chrome”. That translates to a LOT of point-of-sales stations. So whether you want it to or not, no matter how far we remove ourselves from the Google eek-o-system, they’re going to have access to us, one way or the other.
Comes with extra spyware
Time to look into that 80386 machine advertised in Computer Shopper Magazine!............................
Sorry...zero interest in a “cloud-based operating system”. Once my wife quits working from home (and we no longer need Windows), I will transfer to Linux for both of us.
Edge integrates well with Office 365 and presumedly with the new Windows 11
The migration to Microsoft cloud capabilities is in fact a beneficial action to those in or dealing with large organizations with scattered locations having a need to work together. That need is great for companies having workers functioning in home offices.
Google is not really a contender in the business world reality
What it will do is render your older systems useless so you have to buy a new computer.
“Google today announced a new operating system, Chrome OS Flex, a free-to-use, cloud-based OS built to convert old PCs or Macs into Chromebooks.”
We’re back to the good ol’ days of dumb terminals connected to the mainframe.
Today the dumb terminal is your PC and the mainframe is the Cloud/internet.
Yeah, Chrome OS works pretty well. Of course it is just a google specific skinned linux build, which is probably why it works well. It is also fairly idiot proofed and updates itself on a frequent basis. The downside is there is nothing that you can do on it that is not sent back to the google servers.
Google retired "Don't be evil" as their motto in 2018.
It’s a brilliant move by Google.
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