Chrome Messes Up
Is anyone else having trouble with Chrome. I get a page not private error when I tried to open this page. I am now using Firefox.
Chrome seems to have added a popup which, first of all, demands attention, but second of all causes older Chrome to correctly note that Chrome has become malware and block my access (for example to this page).
Now many companies do this sort of stuff, but, until now, Alphabet has behaved well. I think it important to make clear to them that they messed up so they don’t do stuff like this again.
Now to get the screenshot from the blocked computer to this one was another hassle but here it is.
I’m using Google Chrome, and have for at least a decade.
I too have used Chrome for a decade. Foolishly, I attempted to use it just now to reply to a comment.
It blocked me (I lost the typed text). I am replying with Firefox.
I have no idea why Chrome allows you to comment and blocks me from replying.
I will not find out as I am through with Chrome and, as noted in the post, now aim to minimize Alphabet’s advertising revenue.
Robert:
I did not find Chrome to be friendly and stuck with regular Google for searches. The message is saying your destination is not private. “Private to what” has run through my mind before when I have used ordinary Google and received a similar message in a search.
It does make me wonder what is behind the curtain and how is the message being activated? My adware blocker, etc.?
By the way, I do not use Bing either.
Good to see you again. You create good reading commentary.
I don’t use bling. I used chrome as a browser. I was not searching. It had worked before. I am sure the Chrome popup dialogue box convinced Chrome that this site was dangerous (this sort of thing happens when one is redirected – naturally seems malicious – in my experience it has been benign popup idiocy (site redirects to some Italo red tape regarding consent or privacy or something).
I claimed no more Chrome but using it now (Firefox on computers – this is a phone).
I remain very angry
I was attempting to use Chrome as a browser. I installed Firefox on my laptops.
being a fool I tried to reply to your comment using Chrome which blocked me.
I am on a phone which now has Firefox.
Robert
I can always be reached at hotmail acct. with the same run75441 monicker.
@Robert,
Yes, welcome back. Good to see you here again.
Is it a certificate issue? Browsers seem to use different methods to validate certificates and trust different issuers. I’ve noticed Safari being a bit persnickety accessing some sites that Firefox and Chrome load without comment. Sometimes even IOS Safari will have no problem.
Computer security is a fascinating subject. Back in the 1970s, when various cryptographic algorithms like RSA were being rolled out, I remember one of my friends saying how great it was that one could encrypt and validate so reliably by just using prime numbers and a bit of number theory. Another friend, a security expert for the Air Force, raised his eyebrows and asked, “Where are you getting your prime numbers?” Now it’s, “Where did they get that certificate and do you trust them?”
Kaleberg:
If I am doing a search, I use Google. I do not like Chrome as it does not include much of the items I find in Google. It keeps asking me to switch and I delete it. The same with Bing. Both Chrome and Bing’s direction appears to be wanting to make my experience more complex.
I was not doing a search. I was trying to post here, later trying to reply to a comment here.
Chrome has ceased to function as it did in the past. I will not use it again and will expend no effort trying to figure out what went wrong (on 3 devices with Chrome installed).
no more dealing with Chrome for me. Ever
Robert:
You were in the Trash for some reason. Change of name or addy can cause this. Pulled all of your comments out and approved the. You should be ok now. Chrome was a pain to me. I was fine with Goggle and GMail from time to time. Did not do Chrome. Just like what I am using now, Still have hotmail email addy too.
I do not know, can not know, and will not learn what the problem is. I am through with Chrome forever.
Foolishly I tried to reply to a comment using Chrome which blocked me.
I have now installed Firefox.
I will use it and also aim to minimize Alphabet’s revenues from now on.
FYI – The browser problem has gotten so bad that there is now an application for the Mac that lets you choose which browsers to open which web sites. It’s called Choosy and you set it as your primary browser. Whenever you open a link, Choosy handles it and, based on your preferences, opens it in the appropriate browser. The package includes a set of browser extensions so that when you open a link by clicking on it in a browser A, it might open in browser B.
I use Safari, Firefox and Chrome with occasional side trips in iCab and Opera. Some sites work better in different browsers. In some, they don’t work at all. Opera has built in support for VPNs, so I imagine a clever combination of Choosy and Opera could get BBC opened from a port in England. I haven’t tried this.
I’ve tested Choosy, but I am still switching browsers by hand. Has it really gotten this bad? Some years back Bunnie Huang developed a laptop computer that included an FPGA network built in for people who often run into bunches of live wires and get curious about them. Choosy has this sort of feel. Do I really need an FPGA for plugging in my toaster oven?
For me Never Chrome ever again. It had been the software I used for well over 90% of my interactions with the web. Today from 90% to 0.00% from now on.
Noticed the Italian. Any chance that it is EU privacy related where Alphabet runs Chrome with some other policy layers than they do elsewhere and different than other firms interpretations of requirements?