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Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by antpls »

sveme wrote: post #28

Just got the update at work, and miraculously my uBlock adblocking extension was removed and DuckDuckGo as the default search engine replaced with Google. Looks like all my customizations were replaced by defaults. Now I'm wondering whether it was our IT's fault or due to Google actions.

I updated Chromium to version 69 on a personal debian 9.5, but it didn't touch any of my settings nor removed any installed extensions.

I don't (and never did) log into Chromium with my Google account however, so no syncing is happening.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by calv »

ux-app wrote: post #77
danielecook wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What will you replace gmail with?

Testing proton mail. If mail delivery is solid then that will do, otherwise outlook.com will be good enough. I'm ungoogling my life and strangely enough, MS is the less bad option right now.

If you have your own domain I recently found Migadu from HN like a day or two ago in another discussion. (and I love them already)

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by czechdeveloper »

wslh wrote: post #83

This is when Google starts to underestimate users and treat them as dumb zombies. It is their new game theory play: 1/ Start making people think you are super ethical (don't be evil) 2/ Gain traction 3/ Change rules and take advantage of inertia. People are lazy to change browsers.

You will see that there will be exactly zero backlash outside of hacker news.

They do not need their first adopters anymore.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by askmike »

beavis2 wrote: post #72
ux-app wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup, same. Switched to ff and bing. Was surprisingly frictionless. Next week I'll be off gmail too. Up yours google. The week after, I'm getting rid of my android phone. I'm a high school IT teacher and have some influence over hundreds of students each year. I've already started to sprinkle in some discussion about privacy and will be sure to inform my students about the issues. Of course I won't brow beat my studen…

While still using Windows...

Can't speak for ux-app but most people on HN are on macs, also a lot of people on linux.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by amelius »

NeedMoreTea wrote: post #4

Are they trying to promote Firefox or something? Chrome seems to be trying quite hard to annoy people enough to actually uninstall it.

Nope, they are just finding the theshold at which 5% of people gets annoyed to the extent that they will switch browsers.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by heinrich5991 »

ux-app wrote: post #62
mangecoeur wrote: post #36

Seriously don't know why anyone is surprised that a browser built by an ad-tech company pushes the user tracking tech of that company. Just use Firefox and have done with it - there's been a series of these kinds of posts over the last couple of days with people suggesting insane workaround hacks instead of just changing their browser. P.S. if you keep chrome because some websites only work properly there, maybe y'al…

Dropping chrome is not enough. Switch to bing (Just as good as G), or ddg if you really want. Then ditch android which is the spy in your pocket. If you're installing G analytics for clients then choose an alternative (I'm open to suggestions here). It's really time to disentangle ourselves from google. They've quietly and effectively insinuated themselves across the web. Enough is enough.

You should be good if you're using Android without Google services, I think.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by imdsm »

ux-app wrote: post #77
danielecook wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What will you replace gmail with?

Testing proton mail. If mail delivery is solid then that will do, otherwise outlook.com will be good enough. I'm ungoogling my life and strangely enough, MS is the less bad option right now.

proton is good

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by wincent »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #78

Was using private browsing to log in to work gmail last night and found it really creepy how it remained logged in across private tabs. Thought the whole point of a private tab was to completely isolate a browsing session, now you can never be certain your Google credentials are not being shared in these private sessions or even contaminate my non-private sessions. Going to have to use another browser for my work ses…

I think Incognito tabs have always been this way in Chrome for as long as I remember (all currently open ones share a session). If you close all of them, the next one you open will be a clean slate.

Re: Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

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Post by Crosseye_Jack »

sveme wrote: post #28

Just got the update at work, and miraculously my uBlock adblocking extension was removed and DuckDuckGo as the default search engine replaced with Google. Looks like all my customizations were replaced by defaults. Now I'm wondering whether it was our IT's fault or due to Google actions.

This can happen if somehow sync got enabled when you signed in.

Sync kicked in, noticed a mismatch between your current setup and the one you had set up many years ago while testing the “sign into chrome” process and set your setting to the one in the cloud.

It’s caught me out a couple of times too.

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