"You carry a device in your pocket that knows more about you than your partner, your doctor, or your lawyer. It knows your recent places, who you talk to, what you buy, and what keeps you up at night. Most of that knowledge doesn't come from your phone itself. The gateway to this data is the web browser, and for the majority of Android users, it's Google Chrome."
"When a company pulls in hundreds of billions of dollars a year, mostly from advertising, nothing it builds is truly free. Google is an ad company. It always has been. It likely always will be. Samsung is different. Samsung is a hardware company. It does not need to know that you are looking for a new pair of hiking boots to be profitable. It has already made its profit the moment you walk out of the store with a new phone."
Most Android users rely on Google Chrome as the default browser, which functions as a surveillance tool because Google’s advertising business model incentivizes collecting searches, locations, purchases, and contacts. Much of the personal data accessible on phones is funneled through the browser rather than the OS itself. Samsung, by contrast, is a hardware company whose profits do not depend on advertising and therefore treats privacy as a selling point; Samsung Internet emphasizes tracker blocking and device-level privacy features. Incognito Mode in Chrome offers misleading assurances of privacy, leaving users exposed to trackers and ad-driven monitoring. Trust should follow companies’ incentives.
Read at Android Police
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