Contra Chrome, or how Google Chrome became a threat to privacy

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Sooner or later we will have to decide and create the category the beautiful stories, Contra Chrome, or how Google Chrome became a threat to privacy would absolutely fall into this category! Let's start from the beginning, but first of all we leave you the link to download the PDF of this comic which has been translated into Italian byCopernican association:

Since you literally took the site by storm, we decided to upload it to Mega, one of the most interesting alternatives to Google Drive. You can download it or read it directly from there.

The comic, which is called Contra Chrome, is created by the cartoonist Leah Elliot and it is a free rearrangement of the comic book of presentation of Google Chrome realized by Scott McCLoud in 2008 and commissioned by Google itself.

The comic by Leah Elliot it is really well done and interesting and shows all the limits and problems of Google Chrome, making clear the risks to privacy in an ironic, direct and decidedly simple way that is accessible to anyone.

Contra Chrome, or how Google Chrome became a threat to privacy

We were talking about beautiful stories because of this comic, if you remember well, none we had talked about Lemmy (before even creating Feddit.it) and we were all absolutely fascinated by it. Shortly afterwards it also happened that the site was no longer visitable because there was no more bandwidth available for thatHosting. So first we decided to also upload the PDF to our Telegram channel to make it available to other people too. Leah Elliott fortunately he discovered that archive.org had kept a copy! So even if the site's bandwidth ran out, the PDF was still easily visible via archive.org.

Another curiosity, you know we can't help it, is that the comic was in its period of greatest social prominence censored and blocked by Twitter and then be unlocked after approximately 24 hours. Also for this reason we find it necessary to share wildly and we have decided to publish it here on Le Alternative too.

The comic was initially translated only into English and German (the two languages that the cartoonist speaks). Thanks to the extraordinary work of the Copernicani association it is now also available in Italian. We know it's being worked on for translation also into French and Spanish.

We now leave you again below the links to download and read the PDF online directly from our site because, as mentioned, we find sharing important also to prevent other sites from being taken by storm and exhausting all the resources (the comic weighs over 20MB).

Since you literally took the site by storm, we decided to upload it to Mega, one of the most interesting alternatives to Google Drive. You can download it or read it directly from there.

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