Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine

Post by toastal » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 7:05 AM UTC

djanogo wrote: post #38

buro9 wrote: post #32

Many years ago I shared that I browse across several browsers, separating usage depending on the site I am visiting. + Gmail, Drive, Google Calendar = Chrome + Sites I trust = Firefox + Sites I do not know or trust = Firefox Private browsing (or Firefox Focus on Android) This involves cautiously copying links from browser to browser, and if I make a mistake I have a scorched Earth policy of the history and cookies. T…

I used to this do exactly, but switching to Firefox containers made Chrome redundant. Chrome uses too much memory to leave it running just for few websites, and Google including analytics script as builtin library was the last straw.

Post by Vinnl » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 7:22 AM UTC

sbr464 wrote: post #70

This update really broke a lot of things. There are a lot of services that rely on the first logged in google account. I used to log into chrome with a personal account, and log into gmail/etc first with my business account. That way, my bookmarks and history would stay with me personally, but things that I use a lot, work email/google cloud etc would open as default under the work account. One common issue is some s…

Post by clear_dg » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 7:42 AM UTC

rundell1x wrote: post #122

What's the flag that disables this behaviour? Because I would really like to keep using Chrome.

Post by pastununtrium » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 7:51 AM UTC

TheDong wrote: post #91

kentonv wrote: post #64

I feel like there's some implied assumption here that this change lets Google do something evil that they couldn't do before, but I don't really see what. If you're logged into Google properties (independent of browser), Google can already track you across most of the internet, via their Ads and Analytics embedded in a rather large percentage of web sites. If you don't want Google to track you on non-Google web sites…

> Firefox has a concept of profiles but AFAICT you can only run one profile at a time. :( You can have one primary firefox instance, and any number of instances that have the "--no-remote" flag set, each running different profiles. Any links you click outside of firefox (e.g. xdg-open) will use the primary firefox. The 'firefox --no-remote -P' trick has worked for longer than chrome has existed and I've been using it…

Post by pastununtrium » Sun, Sep 23, 2018, 7:57 AM UTC

jsnell wrote: post #8

mindgam3 wrote: post #5

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This is very bad. There are so many reasons why I want to be able to use Gmail without having google track all of my activity across search and maps. I have been a loyal Chrome user since pretty much launch, because it was the fastest browser and mostly seemed to stay that way over the years. I understand why Google is doing this from a monopolistic “control all the things” perspective, and this will probably increas…

> This is very bad. There are so many reasons why I want to be able to use Gmail without having google track all of my activity across search and maps. But I don't think this Chrome release changed anything with regards to that? It's been the case for more than a decade that if you're logged into gmail you're also logged into search, maps, apps, etc. And if you log out of one, you log out of all of them. Whatever wor…