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comment by jfinster

Open source software! Open source hardware!





Grendel  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Respect my freedoms!

jfinster  ·  3411 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The good news is that they did remove it, at least from chromium.

Not OK, Google: Chromium voice extension pulled after spying concerns

Old sneaky google, putting their closed source voice crawling software in open source chromium, tsk tsk tsk. I wonder if it would still be there if users hadn't complained. Makes one wonder what's going unnoticed...

(To answer your original post questions) I don't know why people still use chrome, and I've been practising a personal boycott of google for a few years.