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Yeah Google would never sacrifice user privacy...

Guess what story popped up when I logged in today? https://www.tomsguide.com/news/chrome-google-site-data-speci...

“Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data — even if you tell it to

Browser retains site data in defiance of privacy settings”

Every week there is a new scandal with Chrome privacy and usually it’s Google to blame and not a bug. I’m sure they’ll tell us this was another honest mistake that tracked billions of people for ten years but NEXT time they’ll put our privacy first. Meanwhile we all know our data has been the goal since day one and Google Chrome is the Trojan Horse to get the tracking onto our computer



You realize that the article you linked to is about the exact same thing as TFA, right? Then you must also realize because I've already told you that Safari doesn't even give you the option to clear data on exit right? That makes it strictly worse for your privacy.

The particular issue mentioned here turned out to be a bug that affects more than YouTube and Google. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=127340




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