Comment by skilled
3 years ago
It doesn't look like this was covered much by the mainstream tech sites, but the official page is here,
https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy-on-the-web/
I just checked it myself and at least for me all the settings are set to "Off" by default.
EDIT: Just to make it clear, it's likely I mindlessly turned these Off when first time encountering the notice by Chrome when this was first released (see the comment thread below).
>it's likely I mindlessly turned these Off when first time encountering the notice
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who does this. "Do you want to enable-" No. "Help Contoso by-" No. "Personalise your experience by-" No. "Sign up for our-" No. "Try our new-" No. "Let's get started with a brief unskippable tutorial." Sigh.
OFF for me, but I fully expect to play whackamole with a stream of future sneaky updates turning them ON 'to improve my browsing experience'.
Mine were also off (Win11). I also usually turn off anything like this, but I don't recall doing it recently.
These were all ON for me. Turned them off.
ON for me, but Chrome automatically popped up the settings page to tell me about it and let me turn it off. Still, I might have to start looking at other browsers.
This could be what happened to me and I never noticed it, so I don't want to give the impression that this is "Off" by default because it looks like it isn't.