Google Chrome Browser Issues and Questions Thread

Here is some more info about bugs in Chrome and Windows that were used to bypass Chrome's sandbox. The question that comes to mind is, would this also have worked in browsers like Edge, Opera and Vivaldi?

https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2021/01/introducing-in-wild-series.html

 

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-enable-and-use-reading-list-in-google-chrome

 

https://tehnoblog.org/google-chrome-desktop-browser-how-to-hide-tab-search-icon/

 

Proof that Chrome is basically spyware:

https://twitter.com/DuckDuckGo/status/1371509053613084679

 

Chrome has added some more protection against exploits, but it will only work on Win 10 21H2 combined with CPU's with "Control-flow Enforcement Technology", like Intel's 11th generation CPU's and AMD Ryzen if I'm correct.

https://www.securityweek.com/google-makes-chrome-windows-more-resilient-vulnerability-exploitation

 

You can opt out of a lot of that data. Also a reason why I use chromium. And duckduckgo. Altho every once in a while duckduckgo just completely misses what I'm trying to find if it's specific, that's where google comes to the rescue.

 

neither twitter nor DDG are valuable sources for such questionable "facts".
DDG wants to sell its services, either free or paid. and twitter is not even close to project x.

there is a lot to opt-out for google itself, in each google account settings. anybody using a smartphone with android is able to control the most data flow. but most of them use social media which are tracking same amount and more of users as google.

in case of a desktop browser - dont use chrome. As long this is a chrome concerning thread it seems funny for me to speak about data collecting in this manner. people are not really forced to use chrome, its a decision. dont know why to bother here.

anyhow that DDG text is stupid click baiting and it seems it has found its followers.

 

The i5-11400F is an absolute banger right now, best value of cpus by far. Absolutely amazing performance for the money. Makes old gens look completely outdated. Look at this, https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9900-vs-Intel-Core-i5-11400F/m816115vs4111

It vs the 9900 that was the 2nd/3rd best intel cpu (depending if u consider the 9700K to be better), smashes it in every way (except max usage which is shown as 64-core performance, cuz obviously the 11400F only has 6 cores vs the 8 of the 9900)

 

its not click bait tho, it's right.

 

i dont have doubt that google collects user data. as i wrote anybody with a google account can decide whats collected. DDG is a search machine, nothing else. DDG is far away to be compared with google nor to chrome as they dont offer any browser. thats why i call it click bait - selling facts with an absolutely wrong conclusion. further - DDG uses google and ofc DDG need to live and make money to survive, guess how they manage it!?

 

They need money, they get that by providing non-personalized ads that are based on your search term. They do not store data to deliver personalized ads. And they offer android browser.

 

https://www.myvu.com/how-does-duckduckgo-make-money/
https://moneymodels.org/business-models/how-does-duckduckgo-make-money/

If Tor browser uses duckduckgo and recommends it, maaaaaaaaaaybe there's something legit in it after all. Maybe. Not that I'd know. But maybe.

 

thats true. concerning android browser - i wrote they dont offer a browser - to explain: a full featured browser on their own. their privacy browser has only 12megs and is based on android webview (like other web viewer, incl. older Firefox). and it had (!) also its issues a year ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/hjmiz7/domains_visited_get_leaked_to_duckduckgo_servers/
as using chromium you probably know that the whole chromium app is much bigger.

again - on twitter they show up features, pros and cons vs google and chrome, but in fact they dont offer a full browser nor same services as google and are thus neither nor comparable.

they offer anti-FLoC in their extension but they are not alone with such feature.

#edit
thanks for the links, just reading.

 

To be honest, I don't care that much about CPU's, the 10th generation of Intel Core i5 CPU's is good enough for me. I mostly use my PC's for web browsing and occasionally I play a couple of older video games. However, this new security feature is kinda cool.

 

1. Google Chrome has a tab search feature that looks like a small down-arrow icon in the top-right corner of the browser window. ... I disabled this before in flags page. It does not seem to be in flags anymore. https://www.howtogeek.com/722640/how-to-enable-or-disable-the-tab-search-icon-in-chrome/

 

Be interested to know if you find a way to disable this. Wish they would stop adding garbage like this in browsers.

 

From PiunikaWeb ...

They recommend giving feedback through (menu > help > report an issue)

 

Feedback matters. I submitted some comments via Report an issue.

 

I dont care about this tiny button in tab bar. The more annoying thing is the extensions button instead the old list in hamburger button and the resulting list i cannot sort.

 

So you guys are still using Chrome with this FLOC stuff? How are you blocking it?

 

use chrome switch, or any other decent adblocker. FLOC was a nice try, its close to dead.

 

Anyone knows how to disable this hyper annoying Chromes feature?

Redirect Notice... pfff what a supern00b feature.

 

There is a switch to disable it? Did not know. I use uBO so assume I would be safe. Have not run Chrome in quite awhile now. Been using Firefox again.

 

Thanks.

I tried that before posting here but it didn't work out.