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shatmaself 2 points ago +3 / -1

Made the switch about a month back, and yes, I'm loving Brave. Faster. Chrome started out lean and fast years back, but has become very bloated and invasive. Can you believe they run a "Software Reporter" process in the background to scan all programs you have installed and report it to them? Supposedly so they can learn what causes any technical problems to Chrome, but that damn process sucks up CPU and memory and slows your machine down (I'm talking desktops here, not mobile). I learned six months back how to hack that to shut that down, and kept using Chrome... but then starting like two months back, Chrome began bringing my computer(s) (multiple workstations and configurations, so wasn't just "environmental" limited to one or two machines) to a standstill for minutes at a time. I never did figure out exactly what was going on there. I uninstalled Chrome and installed Brave, and the browser and my computers are all doing much much better. Fuck Chrome!!! And fuck Google!!!

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Deadline 1 point ago +1 / -0

Can you believe they run a "Software Reporter" process in the background to scan all programs you have installed and report it to them? Supposedly so they can learn what causes any technical problems to Chrome, but that damn process sucks up CPU and memory and slows your machine down (I'm talking desktops here, not mobile).

Holy shit? I knew Google was bad but I didn't know Chrome was doing all that...