Google Chrome

Google Chrome

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Basic Information
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Product Type
In Production
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Google Chrome is a Browser created by tech giant Google. Since its inception, it has become the most used browser on the internet by a fairly large margin.

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Consumer impact summary

Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

• User Freedom
• User Privacy
• Business Model
• Market Control

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Incidents

This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the Google Chrome category.

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Anti-Competitive Practices

Google uses the market dominance of their unrelated products and services, such as web search or cloud storage services, to display intrusive messages such as popups aimed to annoy users to the point where they give up and change to Chrome. Not because they want to, but to escape the deliberate obstructions Google creates for them when accessing Google services with competing browsers.

Discontinuation of Manifest V2 support (2024)

Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard. This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable.

Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Vivaldi, which have alle pledged to reatain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.

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See also

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