[SgtHooper]

Why would anyone in their right mind want anything to do with Google? Open-source, or otherwise?

[Dr. Sivana]

Why would anyone in their right mind want anything to do with Google? Open-source, or otherwise?

It is hard to avoid the clutches of Google. There is not great alternative to YouTube (owned by Google) yet. Even Microsoft is turning to Chromium, as is Brave. The Mozilla engine has issues, and Google has done a good job co-opting competition (e.g. Opera, etc.).

I don't WANT to use Google Chrome, but I DO want to use ClearPlay's streaming movie filters, which work only with Chrome/Amazon. ClearPlay is the good guys. Google and Amazon are not. Sometimes we have to make friends with Mammon. Who on line isn't using Google or Microsoft (or both's products)? Maybe those using Apple Safari exclusively, and they are better behaved than the others but not exactly clean either.

[Openurmind]

I had the same question. I played with this for awhile a little over a year ago and the concept is very interesting, but it wasn’t close to being ready and stable yet. But once I started monitoring progress of it it seemed still too beta needed a LOT of bug work that was not getting done very fast. There seemed to be a lack of dedication and serious effort coming from what few developers were actually working on it. Maybe they have finally got some more accomplished since then.

[TheNext]

Distribute. Computers are cheap.

Keep one Google PC and also use others.