I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.
this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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According to this popup, Chrome is essentially sending my entire browsing history god knows where in order to build a user profile that is then used by advertising companies to display targeted ads on the websites I visit. But it allows me to control which topics get shown or hidden and somehow that is a "privacy" feature.
I just don't want my browsing history to be used for anything except finding what pages I visited in the past and that's it. I'm sick of being tracked and having my whole god damn digital life being shared to fucking greedy corporations who want to send me ads to buy crap I don't need.
According to Steve Gibson's podcast, the analysis of your browsing history that converts it into topics is done in your browser, so presumably on your computer, not by sending the browsing history to a server. Only the resulting topics are shared with Google's servers.
Ok. Still. Why is my browser using memory and spending cpu cycles on this shit?
the user profile is stored locally, websites get a random list of three topics