Switching involved less inconvenience than you might imagine. It made me decide to ditch Chrome for a new version of nonprofit Mozilla's Firefox, which has default privacy protections. It turns out, having the world's biggest advertising company make the most popular Web browser was about as smart as letting kids run a candy shop. Lately I've been investigating the secret life of my data, running experiments to see what technology really gets up to under the cover of privacy policies that nobody reads.
Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software. This was made possible by the Web's biggest snoop of all: Google.
