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| Title = {{PAGENAME}}

| Release Year =

| Release Year =2008

| Product Type =

| Product Type =Web Browser

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| In Production =Yes

| Official Website =

| Official Website =https://www.google.com/chrome/

| Logo =

| Logo =Google Chrome logo and wordmark (2015).png

}}Google Chrome is a Browser created by tech giant [[Google]]. Since its inception, it has become the most used browser on the internet by a large margin.

}}'''[[wikipedia:Google_Chrome|Google Chrome]]''' is a Browser created by tech giant [[Google]]. Since its inception, it has become the most used browser on the internet by a large margin.

==Consumer impact summary==

{{Placeholder box|Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):

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==Incidents==

This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].

{{Placeholder box|Replace the placeholder text in the sections below with the incidents that affect this product and a short summary. Also replace the link so it point to the right product line or company article.}}

===Anti-Competitive Practices===

Google uses the market dominance of their unrelated products and services, such as web search or cloud storage services, to display intrusive messages such as popups aimed to annoy users to the point where they give up and change to Chrome.<ref>{{Cite web |last=~~User 1809155850774101919~~ |date=2022-08-19 |title=How do I stop Google pop ups asking me to switch my browser to Chrome? |url=https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/175747071/how-do-i-stop-google-pop-ups-asking-me-to-switch-my-browser-to-chrome?hl=en |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Google Support Community}}</ref> Not because they want to, but to escape the deliberate obstructions Google creates for them when accessing Google services with competing browsers.

Google uses the market dominance of their unrelated products and services, such as web search or cloud storage services, to display intrusive messages such as popups aimed to annoy users to the point where they give up and change to Chrome.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-08-19 |title=How do I stop Google pop ups asking me to switch my browser to Chrome? |url=https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/175747071/how-do-i-stop-google-pop-ups-asking-me-to-switch-my-browser-to-chrome?hl=en |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Google Support Community}}</ref> Not because they want to, but to escape the deliberate obstructions Google creates for them when accessing Google services with competing browsers.

Moreover, Google has in the past deliberately degraded performance of their video platform [[YouTube]] for users accessing the website using the competing Firefox browser.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Jake |date=2023-11-21 |title=How to Stop Google From Artificially Slowing Down YouTube |url=https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=LifeHacker}}</ref>

===Discontinuation of Manifest V2 support (''2024'')===

Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard. This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable.

Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manifest V2 support timeline |url=https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline |url-status=live |access-date=5 Apr 2025 |website=[[Google]]}}</ref> This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable.

Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Vivaldi, which have alle pledged to reatain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.

~~Incidents affecting all of~~ the ~~product line/company's products can be found in the prouct line/company article: [[Product line title]]/[[Company article title]]~~

Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as [[Mozilla]] Firefox or Vivaldi, which have all pledged to retain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.

~~{{Placeholder box|* [[Example incident one]] (date): Short summary of the incident (could be the same~~ as ~~the summary preceding the article).~~

* [[~~Example incident two~~]] ~~(date):~~

~~Incidents affecting the entire product line can be found~~ in ~~the product line article: [[Product line article, or company article if there is no product line]]}}~~

==See also==

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 {{InfoboxProductLine
 | Title = {{PAGENAME}}
-| Release Year =
+| Release Year =2008
-| Product Type =
+| Product Type =Web Browser
-| In Production =
+| In Production =Yes
-| Official Website =
+| Official Website =https://www.google.com/chrome/
-| Logo =
+| Logo =Google Chrome logo and wordmark (2015).png
-}}Google Chrome is a Browser created by tech giant [[Google]]. Since its inception, it has become the most used browser on the internet by a large margin.
+}}'''[[wikipedia:Google_Chrome|Google Chrome]]''' is a Browser created by tech giant [[Google]]. Since its inception, it has become the most used browser on the internet by a large margin.
 ==Consumer impact summary==
 {{Placeholder box|Overview of concerns that arise from the conduct towards users of the product (if applicable):
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 ==Incidents==
 This is a list of all consumer protection incidents related to this product. Any incidents not mentioned here can be found in the [[:Category:{{PAGENAME}}|{{PAGENAME}} category]].
-{{Placeholder box|Replace the placeholder text in the sections below with the incidents that affect this product and a short summary. Also replace the link so it point to the right product line or company article.}}
 ===Anti-Competitive Practices===
-Google uses the market dominance of their unrelated products and services, such as web search or cloud storage services, to display intrusive messages such as popups aimed to annoy users to the point where they give up and change to Chrome.<ref>{{Cite web |last=User 1809155850774101919 |date=2022-08-19 |title=How do I stop Google pop ups asking me to switch my browser to Chrome? |url=https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/175747071/how-do-i-stop-google-pop-ups-asking-me-to-switch-my-browser-to-chrome?hl=en |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Google Support Community}}</ref> Not because they want to, but to escape the deliberate obstructions Google creates for them when accessing Google services with competing browsers.
+Google uses the market dominance of their unrelated products and services, such as web search or cloud storage services, to display intrusive messages such as popups aimed to annoy users to the point where they give up and change to Chrome.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2022-08-19 |title=How do I stop Google pop ups asking me to switch my browser to Chrome? |url=https://support.google.com/accounts/thread/175747071/how-do-i-stop-google-pop-ups-asking-me-to-switch-my-browser-to-chrome?hl=en |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=Google Support Community}}</ref> Not because they want to, but to escape the deliberate obstructions Google creates for them when accessing Google services with competing browsers.
 Moreover, Google has in the past deliberately degraded performance of their video platform [[YouTube]] for users accessing the website using the competing Firefox browser.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Peterson |first=Jake |date=2023-11-21 |title=How to Stop Google From Artificially Slowing Down YouTube |url=https://lifehacker.com/tech/stop-google-slowing-down-youtube-firefox-edge |access-date=2025-03-25 |website=LifeHacker}}</ref>
 ===Discontinuation of Manifest V2 support (''2024'')===
-Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard. This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable.
+Google, whose main business is online advertising, has discontinued support for browser extensions using the Manifest V2 standard.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Manifest V2 support timeline |url=https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/develop/migrate/mv2-deprecation-timeline |url-status=live |access-date=5 Apr 2025 |website=[[Google]]}}</ref> This renders advertising/tracking blockers such as uBlock Origin unusable and deactivates the corresponding plugins on update. Only versions with very limited blocking functionality remain usable.
-Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as Mozilla Firefox or Vivaldi, which have alle pledged to reatain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.
-Incidents affecting all of the product line/company's products can be found in the prouct line/company article: [[Product line title]]/[[Company article title]]
+Users who wish to continue to use the web without their every step being traced by Google and other advertising syndicates have no other option but to switch to a different browser such as [[Mozilla]] Firefox or Vivaldi, which have all pledged to retain full Manifest V2 compatibility in their browsers.
-{{Placeholder box|* [[Example incident one]] (date): Short summary of the incident (could be the same as the summary preceding the article).
-* [[Example incident two]] (date):
-Incidents affecting the entire product line can be found in the product line article: [[Product line article, or company article if there is no product line]]}}
 ==See also==