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Goodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted. (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

According to this popup, Chrome is essentially sending my entire browsing history god knows where in order to build a user profile that is then used by advertising companies to display targeted ads on the websites I visit. But it allows me to control which topics get shown or hidden and somehow that is a "privacy" feature.

I just don't want my browsing history to be used for anything except finding what pages I visited in the past and that's it. I'm sick of being tracked and having my whole god damn digital life being shared to fucking greedy corporations who want to send me ads to buy crap I don't need.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

According to Steve Gibson's podcast, the analysis of your browsing history that converts it into topics is done in your browser, so presumably on your computer, not by sending the browsing history to a server. Only the resulting topics are shared with Google's servers.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Ok. Still. Why is my browser using memory and spending cpu cycles on this shit?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

the user profile is stored locally, websites get a random list of three topics