Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings
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liquid_thyme today at 6:18 AM
Chrome may be an excellent browser, but the venn diagram overlap with malware keeps getting larger.
fedpost today at 2:11 AM
It's okay, they're not a monopoly according to this administration. Nothing to see here, carry on!
mgiampapa today at 2:54 AM
I feel like the obvious thing to check here is that all chrome processes have terminated between tests. If it's still running some zombie process of course the data would persist.
flyingshelf today at 3:16 AM
When you log into Google, you also log into Chrome. This means that you'll have a lot of exceptions for Google websites or else a "clear history" would log you out of Chrome.
Not justifying it (I don't use chrome) but that's likely what's happening here.
Zarathustra30 today at 4:35 AM
While I absolutely believe this, the author should include a control. Go to a different website that sets data, and show that it is deleted when Google data is not.
deleted today at 7:51 AM
est today at 6:00 AM
I used to search on google.ca exclusively with disabled js and cookie
Until the day it no longer works. Sad.
procaryote today at 7:13 AM
Just another reason to stop using chrome and it's related browsers.
If you don't want to hand the biggest ad company a monopoly over web-browsing, start using a gecko based browser like librewolf, zen, mullvad or firefox.
righthand today at 4:16 AM
Google/Alphabet is a bunch of useful good intentioned services wrapped around an nonuseful evil analytics core/monopoly. The people who work with good intentions that “just want to build cool things”, protect the monopoly and the people with bad intentions, who work to empower Google’s monopoly.
bergheim today at 5:40 AM
I hate $THING Firefox does, and I'll complain about it, and I will use $CHROMIUM browser and not complain about that for some reason!
cute_boi today at 3:50 AM
> all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs!
Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
thinker34 today at 2:48 AM
>> I’m personally inclined to cite Hanlon’s razor here rather than engage in conspiracy theories.
That is a likely case. Chrome is their closed source software unlike the Chromium browser.
Abdullah_Sattar today at 5:17 AM
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suqingfu today at 6:29 AM
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tjpnz today at 4:23 AM
Google needs to be broken up.