Comment by josephcsible
6 months ago
That's still just as unfair, though. Google always has access to that information because their extension is preinstalled and you can't disable it, but other websites have no access to that information unless you go out of your way to install a third-party extension to do so.
OK. That's a point of view. I just thought it should be accurately described.
I think the idea that you will download a web browser from Google and then it won't be able to figure out what model of CPU it is running on is a bit weird, when you think it through. There are lots of features of Chrome that are only "available to Google" for example it will only download updates from Google, unless you've modified its source code.
I mean... You downloaded the browser from Google. Did you think Google wouldn't have some kind of privileged access to it?
Google would naturally have privileged access to the browser, but that doesn't need to mean they have secret privileged access to my computer's hardware
Uhm... you do know Chrome runs on your hardware and has full permission to do pretty much whatever it likes?