Personally, I don’t block ads anyway because I know they support the websites I use. I hope others feel the same way and don’t block ads on websites that are using them responsibly.

Thanks for this tip off about Iron. I stopped using Chrome and removed it from my machine because of the installation issues (can’t choose install location, components not properly removed, breaks system if you remove a Windows profile before uninstalling Chrome from it), components hanging around in memory including multiple copies of Google Update (different versions).

I hadn’t even thought about the above privacy issues.

I was hoping Google would release a version with all these issues ironed out but Iron (inadvertent pun!) seems to me to be the browser Google should have made.

Google seem to be sticking to their guns on this so I won’t be using Chrome any time soon now I have this alternative.

I am sending this info (and a link to your page) to everyone I know. Thanks.