Chrome attracts spyware?

[Skeithex]

I often run a program called Super Anti Spysweeper, to you know clean up spyware and unwanted cookies and such. Mostly it rarely picks anything up while I use waterfox but on the few times I happen to use chrome, the amount of spyware on my PC can be anywhere from 10 things found to 200 and I pretty much visit the same sites on both browsers.

Kind of crazy.

[froggyboy604]

I think fewer spyware makers and tracking cookies have a version of their spyware or cookies for Waterfox and Firefox because Firefox is used on 5 % of the world's computers according to http://gs.statcounter.com/

But, a lot of people now use Chrome which is used on 59 % of computers in the world . A lot of people also now own a Google Android phone/tablet, and Chromebook which uses Chrome as the default web browser. Spyware makers may feel it is worth more of their time to infect Chrome users.

[Skeithex]

hrmm good points, glad I use waterfox. I also see an increase usage of the Brave browser.

[froggyboy604]

Brave Browser is bases on Chromium, but it has privacy protection features like blockers for ad and tracking cookies .

[Skeithex]

Brave Browser is bases on Chromium, but it has privacy protection features like blockers for ad and tracking cookies .

oh so its based on chrome? Did not know that. kind of surprised they base it on that.

[froggyboy604]

Chrome is based on Chromium which is open source free software. Brave and Chrome are web browsers which is based on Chromium. I think the main difference with Chrome is that only Google is allowed to change Chrome. But, Chromium lets Google and volunteers change the code.

[Skeithex]

So chromium must be open sourced in order for people to make Brave from?