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		VikingCoder on July 11, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Chromebook Under $300 Defies PC Market With... If someone buys a computer and uses the internet, Google gets to sell more ads. The Chromebook is literally no different, in this respect. So your argument about "inherently more tracking" is fatally flawed.

jiggy2011 on July 11, 2013 [–]

The idea of the chromebook is to move away from native apps that run on your computer to cloud apps where your computer serves as mainly a front end to google's datacenter.

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