Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It's time to switch.

Author: Geoffrey A. Fowler

Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser - in a single week.  Here's why Firefox is better.

You open your browser to look at the web. Do you know who is looking back at you?

Over a recent week of web surfing, I peered under the hood of Google Chrome and found it brought along a few thousand friends. Shopping, news and even government sites quietly tagged my browser to let ad and data companies ride shotgun while I clicked around the web.

This was made possible by the web’s biggest snoop of all: Google. Seen from the inside, its Chrome browser looks a lot like surveillance software.
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