Re: Google Chrome

On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Blueshirt wrote:

D wrote:
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On Mon, 23 Dec 2024, Blueshirt wrote:
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JAB wrote:
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I bought two items via desktop computer from an online
merchant using Google Chrome, and when PayPal payment came
due, I didn't have to login. My Pixel 8a is never involved
in direct online transactions (except for PayPal
verification), so I suspect Google Chrome "knew" about my
Pixel 8a, so Chrome somehow did the login to PayPal.

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Google knows everything!
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That's why some of us do our best to avoid them, where
possible.
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Unfortunately in 2024 it's very hard to avoid Google
completely ... they are like The Matrix!

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You are a wise man!

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If something is free - YOU are the product! So I try and limit
my exposure to that sort of thing with a paid for encrypted
e-mail service, plus I use e-mail aliases when I sign up to

Me too! It brings me much joy and freedom! On the other hand, it saddens me that the people I email have google, so on the other end I get caught in their machinery. ;)
I do have an old hotmail address I used for signing up to nonsense, it has about 20k spam messages at the moment, and it gives me pleasure to waste a tiny amount of Microsofts resources with that account. =D

things. I also use TOR to browse the Internet. Google have their
grubby little tentacles all over the Internet so I don't like to
make it easy for them...
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You can never completely escape the Matrix though!

I use privacy badger and ublock origin and ff, and that's about it for me when browsing regular sites. Oh, and I never use google but ddg or startpage.com instead.