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<body>I dumped windows in 1997. Daily/Only driver is a Linux system. I trust chrome about as far as I can throw a full rack of google hardware. At chromium doesn't directly borg everything to the chocolate factory instantly. Firefox, icecat with private browsing and delete all cookies/traces on close.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 3, 2020 2:28:41 PM EDT, Calvin Harrigan via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">This auto start/monitoring feature is
the main reason why I've never adopted Chrome as a browser or even
have it installed on my computers. I tried chrome when it first
came out. I noticed that it ran continuously even when closed. I
tried to track down how/where it was loading. I searched the
regular places (windows 7 at the time) startup, registry,
services, etc. I couldn't find it at first. I eventually found
it buried deep in the system in where things like virus
scanners/etc resided. I was disturbed enough, that I not only
uninstalled it, I reinstalled windows and vowed, never again.
That was a little over 10 years ago.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 9/3/2020 14:21, Jim Kinney via Ale
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JEFFREY LIGHTNER via Ale <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><ale@ale.org></a> wrote:
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<pre class="k9mail">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.
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">On 09/01/2020 6:37 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><ale@ale.org></a> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Leam Hall via Ale <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:ale@ale.org"><ale@ale.org></a> wrote:
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">Anyone familiar with this? Solutions that move away from a company
that collects and sells things they shouldn't?
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