Chrome: Don't show the bookmarks bar

Colin Mullikin

I unchecked the "Always show the bookmarks bar" checkbox, and all I got was no bookmark bar. :doh:

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Forogar

Same here.

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Slacker007

You must have some interesting bookmarks if you don't want Google looking at them. :doh:

Lost User

Slacker007 wrote:

You must have some interesting bookmarks if you don't want Google looking at them. :doh:

Anything that is considered "private", yes. Stuff like religion, for instance. ..and yes, I'm offended by the idea that there is nothing to fear if you have nothing to hide. Especially since history has proven that idea to be wrong.

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Slacker007

I have all sorts of bookmarks - some really interesting, and men in black ties have yet to knock on my door.

Lost User

Again, what you find interesting may not be exactly what I am afraid of; you're not a member of the government here. Information collected is stored, and the EU may lay claim to that information for "security reasons" and to fight "terrorism". Even if I could trust Google, I am not going to trust a politician.

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dandy72

Import bookmarks from what--IE? Move or rename IE's Favorites folder, then create a new (empty) one. Let Chrome import that. Once it knows it's done the import (of nothing), rename the original folder so it's usable again.

Slacker007

Well, you know how I feel about the EU, and if you don't, then know that I do not care for the EU at all. Now this is the Lounge, so I will leave it at that, but I do understand your concerns and I think they are valid, on the EU context.

Lost User

Slacker007 wrote:

Well, you know how I feel about the EU,

Yup, and it seemed a better argument than a Godwin :-\

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Deflinek

Mark_Wallace wrote:

Seems pretty obvious that the bookmarks bar is one of the sources that google uses for snooping on you, if you're not allowed to keep your bookmarks from them

Google doesn't need your bookmarks to "snoop" on you. And if you are concerned I'm not sure Chrome is the right browser for you :) I'm pretty sure they already know every single page you visit that sports google analytics snippets especially if you used the same browser to login to any google service at any time - be it gmail, youtube, picasa or whatever. At least google uses this information for its own profit as far as I know. That is good thing actually because for now they have no interest to use it for witch-hunt of any kind as that would hurt the money. I'm affraid the only other option would be to not use any of their products including android phones, google search engine (included by default as in-browser search also in many other browsers) and browsing each site in separate in-private mode. But even then some other corp would "snoop" on you.

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Mark_Wallace

Tried it. I don't use IE, so only the ms bookmarks are there. It wasn't enough; the damned demand just won't go away.