Comment by ReverseCold
8 years ago
Alternatively just get Firefox, use https://ffprofile.com/ once, and stop dealing with Chrome.
Ta-da, no more spyware.
8 years ago
Alternatively just get Firefox, use https://ffprofile.com/ once, and stop dealing with Chrome.
Ta-da, no more spyware.
Yes, this move is a deal breaker. Defaults matter, so I'm switching to Firefox.
I just did the same. After having used chrome since pretty much version 1.
Thanks for the site tip, I will use that site from now on.
Calling that behavior "spyware" is a bit of a stretch.
Why? Because it’s google? I get no advantage out of the feature, and it primarily serves to gather data on me. To me, that’s spyware.
Personally, I'm going to sign into both anyway. One less thing to sign into saves me time. That makes me happy. I dunno if I'm in the minority or not. But, it's a feature that at least some people find useful, so, I think branding it spyware is unjustified. It's not like it's a keylogger sending my data to who knows where which no reasonable person could ever find useful.
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