Chrome: Don't show the bookmarks bar
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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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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.
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OK, so I immediately unchecked the show-bookmarks-bar option, so now, instead of the bookmarks bar, I've get an even deeper bar, telling me that I have to import my bookmarks to a bookmarks bar that I don't want to show. I manually added this site[^], but that's not enough. It insists that I import bookmarks. 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.
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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.
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OK, so I immediately unchecked the show-bookmarks-bar option, so now, instead of the bookmarks bar, I've get an even deeper bar, telling me that I have to import my bookmarks to a bookmarks bar that I don't want to show. I manually added this site[^], but that's not enough. It insists that I import bookmarks. 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.
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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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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.
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.
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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.
-- "My software never has bugs. It just develops random features."
Sorry? Did it sound like I installed chrome because I want it?
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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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That's worth a +5 of anyone's money.
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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.
Slacker007 wrote:
I do understand your concerns and I think they are valid, on the EU context.
Er, yeah, because US politicians and governmental offices are so incredibly trustworthy...
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I unchecked the "Always show the bookmarks bar" checkbox, and all I got was no bookmark bar. :doh:
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Well, it sure as Hell ain't working here.
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You must have some interesting bookmarks if you don't want Google looking at them. :doh:
Interesting to me, obviously, but no other ****er's business.
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Slacker007 wrote:
I do understand your concerns and I think they are valid, on the EU context.
Er, yeah, because US politicians and governmental offices are so incredibly trustworthy...
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Some how, I don't think a Trump presidency is going to care about my bookmarks; I really don't.