[citation][nom]gerry410[/nom]I don't know what your talking about. You have to download and Install the Google browser to your computer unlike IE which is provided with the Windows operating system. Additionally, you have to select to make it your default browser. I get the impression you think you have some specialized incite when you say things like "because they're too scared or lacking in computer ability to remove it " Are you kidding me !!! LOL With regards to your privacy, you lost it the second you signed on to the internet. Don't kid yourself. We live in a very very small world now. I guess its just a matter of personal taste which browser people prefer.[/citation]
So, when I install CCleaner, or ImgBurn, or pretty much ANY OTHER free utility, you can promise me I won't suddenly find a Google Chrome icon sitting on my desktop (if I install the utility just by clicking on the next buttons).
Google pay software makers to install chrome as part of the i9nstallation process of the software you actually wanted. Its exactly the same as the poor fools who use iTunes will generally have it (or rather the Apple Software Updater) sneak-install Safari on their PCs.
Or how about the Conduit Search Engine Bar, or the old Comet Cursor. They all sneak onto your system without your explicit consent by hiding in the installation routines of software you DID want.
Now you and me are smart enough to not just click every 'next' button an installer displays without knowing what extra shit its going to install, but the vast computer using public do not do this.
And immoral software makers like google exploit this to get their rubbishware on as many computers as possible.
Why should I not get the chance to NOT install the Google Updater when I install Google Earth? It keeps earth up to date (nothing that Earth could do by itself) but more insidiously it downloads and installs other Google crap like Chrome without asking the users consent.
Its this kind of thing, the sneak-installs, that I believe has given chrome this bump in marketshare numbers.