Over looking the ovbious lol
Chrome itself is the spyware, but they get people to argue over the plug ins lol.
Chrome logs all; request, pages hit, data entered - for Marketing purposes (you agreed to it). Yet people are crying about what it lets others do and not.
The closest I can see this is; If a fox brought lice with it when it broke into your hen house and ate all your chickens eggs. You have to kill the fox, not just the lice. But all anyone talks about is the lice. Why not get rid of both.