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Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by anticensor »

edoceo wrote: post #13
tehlike wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Engineers are humans.

Corporations are not, they're made of humans but they behave worse than an individual.

Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal, even when that goal is flimsy or bad.

Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by avaer »

cute_boi wrote: post #18

> 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.

1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links

2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked

You're the product, not the customer.

Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by lapcat »

Zarathustra30 wrote: post #28

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.

I did: "As far as I can tell, www.google.com is the only site exempted by Chrome."

My screenshots do not show this, but my screenshots were not intended as proof, merely as explanation. Chrome is available to everyone and used by millions of people, so anyone who wants proof can reproduce the issue themselves, and I hope that they do.

Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by lapcat »

frankacter wrote: post #8
mgiampapa wrote: post #6

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.

At least on windows, closing chrome doesn't close the system tray process which keeps Chrome and Gemini prestaged and cached. Wonder if OP is experiencing a version of that on his Mac?

> Wonder if OP is experiencing a version of that on his Mac?

No.

Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by lostlogin »

pampas wrote: post #31
fedpost wrote: post #2

It's okay, they're not a monopoly according to this administration. Nothing to see here, carry on!

No politicians are going to fight a media company. They're in the PR and advertising supply chain.

‘Lake America’ buys breathing time too.

Re: Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

cute_boi wrote: post #18

> 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.

Remember AMP?

Baby steps and they’ll try again.

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