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Chances are more and more of what you do when you use your computer is done through a browser (keeping in contact with friends, jobs, and even organizing).

So the importance of browsers cannot be understated. And having one piece of software do all of this means you have to be able to trust it.

Which brings us to Google & Chrome. Google Chrome has come to dominate the browser usage share, but even that is an understatement. Every single browser you have heard of, with the exception of Firefox, uses a version of Chrome (Chromium) in the background. Opera, Edge, Brave, you name it, they're all based off of Chrome.

Most people know Google is shitty already; if we're just talking about the web, they are regularly caught sabotaging Firefox to boost Chrome usage and, as any corporation would, continue to strengthen their monopoly by making it harder for alternative browsers