[ale] [OT] A frightening thing

[Jim Kinney]

Google == spyware

On September 3, 2020 2:13:08 PM EDT, JEFFREY LIGHTNER via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>I recently became aware Google Chrome stays active even if you close
>it.   I had to go into Chrome settings to disable that.   I also
>modified services to not start automatically at boot.  I only use
>Chrome for the few sites that don't like Firefox.
>
>Worse yet I found Google Crash Reporter (both 32 bit and 64 bit) starts
>automatically at boot even when I tell it to  not do that.   What I did
>that seems to work is went to the services then told it to open the
>folder containing it.   There I renamed the exe files so it can't find
>them on start up.  Online reading suggests the crash reporter is
>actually spyware and complains about the fact that things like Symantec
>AntiVirus label its executables as "safe" rather than blocking it as it
>should.   
>
>Also I found that Firefox was not clearing cache and history 
>automatically when I exit which  bugged me.  FF is my browser of choice
>and I usually tell it to clear on exit in the settings.  It's
>conceivable I somehow missed that check box on installing on this new
>laptop back in May but isn't like my usual paranoid self.  I realized
>something was amiss when Facebook started giving me ads for things I'd
>searched for in Firefox when Facebook wasn't active.
>
>Now I hit Ctrl-Shift-Del often just to be sure I'm clearing in any
>browser I use.
>
>P.S.  MS has great gall to put nagware about using their latest Edge
>release on any other browser I open.   It would be bad enough if they
>asked once and let me say "no" but they only give the "maybe later"
>option so ask every time I open another browser or sometimes if I just
>login to MS-Office.  
>
>
>
>
>> On 09/01/2020 6:37 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>> 
>>  
>> On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org>
>wrote:
>> >>> Anyone familiar with this? Solutions that move away from a
>company
>> >>> that collects and sells things they shouldn't?
>> 
>> Recognizing it is a problem is the first step to recovery.
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