Chrome OS is a surveillance tool for Google and authorities, and should be illegal to give to minors.
It's actually illegal in EU, except for some reason EU is giving it a pass.
this post was submitted on 09 Mar 2026
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I agree, Linux laptops for everyone! Especially when we have immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Bazzite.
Does ChromeOS report everything you do to Google?
The Linux container is sand-boxed. but the chrome browser does by default send a lot of metrics back to Google.
EDIT: I only bought this device for experiments. It is a very low end, efficient laptop. I don't use it for anything else.
Neat, I might have to try this out the next time I pull out my Chromebook. I did use it for a while when my desktop was out of commission, and this was the biggest issue I ran into. Had to dial YouTube videos down to 240p to get decent playback.