2 years ago

In the latest https://thenewstack.io/contra-chrome-a-biting-satire-of-googles-2008-chrome-comic/, I wrote about a new web comic called https://contrachrome.com/ a Creative Commons remix of a comic https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ when it launched the Chrome web browser in 2008. The author of “Contra Chrome,” Leah Elliott, describes herself as a “digital-rights activist” and in her comic she takes aim at Google’s privacy policies since 2008 — especially in relation to the inner workings of the Chrome browser.

The information is scattered all over the net, hidden in tech bubbles or long scientific texts, sugarcoated with misleading PR.

So I reached out to the hacker community, talked to privacy experts, and the concept for Contra Chrome started taking shape.

I firmly believe that in the long run, the mass surveillance mechanisms of Google and others can only lead to totalitarianism.