I was mostly an Internet Explorer user until around the 2010's. I felt Chrome was superior at some point and switched. Less buggy at the time and faster.
I like Chrome's - and Google broadly - "clean" look and feel. It's simplistic, yet powerful (lots of tools and options). I love Google search's totally blank white page. Their minimalistic and clean style for everything is something that fits my persona. I also like that Chrome has a built-in sandbox for browsing protection.
For productivity tools, I do prefer MS Office over G-Suite (by a lot actually). Have tried Edge, but still like Chrome more.
I don't mind Google's data collection on me. I turn off some of their tracking tools in my accounts. I trust Google way more than Facebook. Google has more information on us than FB, but does not fully utilize it in their ad business. FB's back-end is by far the most data-rich of any online advertising platform. They use everything they know about you to let advertisers target consumers more precisely. Google could, if they wanted to, blow them out of the water on this front, but they don't/haven't (yet) do it. That could change, of course.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/25/2020 07:45AM by shoptastic.