I used to search on google.ca exclusively with disabled js and cookie
Until the day it no longer works. Sad.
fedpost 4 hours ago [-]
It's okay, they're not a monopoly according to this administration. Nothing to see here, carry on!
pavon 2 hours ago [-]
This administration has done nothing to end or undermine the antitrust cases against Google. In both cases the judges found Google in violation of antitrust law, but both handed down fairly mild remedies, despite the administration (prosecutor) pushing for much stronger changes. The judges were appointed by Clinton (Leonie Brinkema) and Obama (Amit Mehta).
pampas 1 hours ago [-]
No politicians are going to fight a media company. They're in the PR and advertising supply chain.
lostlogin 43 minutes ago [-]
‘Lake America’ buys breathing time too.
Mountain_Skies 4 hours ago [-]
Google and the rest of the billionaire class thank you for ensuring everyone is too divided by red/blue tribalism to ever have enough unity to mount a fight against them. Well done!
asdf88990 3 hours ago [-]
Exactly. It is like Google has only emerged during this administration with their shenanigans.
8note 3 hours ago [-]
iirc lina khan was appointed during the first trump admin and got most of her work done suing to split google during the biden admin?
you are a bit out of the loop if you think this is a partisan issue, or specifically one thats only there when trump is in charge
manlymuppet 1 hours ago [-]
Allow me to be anal for a moment, but what is the point of doing “if I remember correctly” for something like this?
You can very easily look up exactly when Lina Khan was appointed and get answer very quickly. Is it not worth the effort checking these things before commenting?
Ok rant over. Sorry to be an asshole. This is not your fault as much a standard which should be changed.
c0balt 3 hours ago [-]
She got nominated by Biden in Biden's last term in March of 2021 and left in 2025 two weeks after Trump assumed office.
She did not get appointed under Trump nor did substantial work done under his administration.
Edit: I do not necessarily disagree with your comment on the partisan aspects of this issue. This is only meant to respond to the first paragraph.
thephyber 2 hours ago [-]
Using Lina Khan as an example (your only example?) undermines your point because she started upset Biden and was quickly fired after Trump 2 started.
Zarathustra30 2 hours ago [-]
While I absolutely believe this, the author should include a control. Go to a different website that sets data, and show that it is deleted when Google data is not.
lapcat 56 minutes ago [-]
I did: "As far as I can tell, www.google.com is the only site exempted by Chrome."
My screenshots do not show this, but my screenshots were not intended as proof, merely as explanation. Chrome is available to everyone and used by millions of people, so anyone who wants proof can reproduce the issue themselves, and I hope that they do.
mgiampapa 3 hours ago [-]
I feel like the obvious thing to check here is that all chrome processes have terminated between tests. If it's still running some zombie process of course the data would persist.
stkdump 2 hours ago [-]
It would still be a (albeit convenient for google) bug, as the setting indicates closing all windows as the trigger for deletion.
frankacter 3 hours ago [-]
At least on windows, closing chrome doesn't close the system tray process which keeps Chrome and Gemini prestaged and cached. Wonder if OP is experiencing a version of that on his Mac?
Tempest1981 3 hours ago [-]
Microsoft Edge does this too, iirc, for "Startup Boost".
lapcat 54 minutes ago [-]
> Wonder if OP is experiencing a version of that on his Mac?
No.
flyingshelf 3 hours ago [-]
When you log into Google, you also log into Chrome. This means that you'll have a lot of exceptions for Google websites or else a "clear history" would log you out of Chrome.
Not justifying it (I don't use chrome) but that's likely what's happening here.
ande-mnoc 3 hours ago [-]
This is what the “Allow Chrome sign-in” setting is for and is turned off by the post author.
demibabs 3 hours ago [-]
In the article he explains he’s not signed into Chrome nor Google during the experiment.
bergheim 29 minutes ago [-]
I hate $THING Firefox does, and I'll complain about it, and I will use $CHROMIUM browser and not complain about that for some reason!
righthand 2 hours ago [-]
Google/Alphabet is a bunch of useful good intentioned services wrapped around an nonuseful evil analytics core/monopoly. The people who work with good intentions that “just want to build cool things”, protect the monopoly and the people with bad intentions, who work to empower Google’s monopoly.
Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
avaer 1 hours ago [-]
1) So the backend can track you across fingerprinted links
2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked
You're the product, not the customer.
SV_BubbleTime 37 minutes ago [-]
Remember AMP?
Baby steps and they’ll try again.
thinker34 3 hours ago [-]
>> I’m personally inclined to cite Hanlon’s razor here rather than engage in conspiracy theories.
That is a likely case. Chrome is their closed source software unlike the Chromium browser.
LastTrain 3 hours ago [-]
Hanlon’s Razor applies to human behavior, not corporations.
tehlike 3 hours ago [-]
Engineers are humans.
edoceo 3 hours ago [-]
Corporations are not, they're made of humans but they behave worse than an individual.
rectang 1 hours ago [-]
Fully agree. Humans are social animals who behave differently in different contexts, and the corporate context statistically ensures that the humans inside of it behave in all sorts of lamentable ways.
anticensor 1 hours ago [-]
Corporations are just groups of people working under a common name towards a common goal, even when that goal is flimsy or bad.
isncjwjxjwnd 2 hours ago [-]
And who do you think makes these behavioural decisions? There is no “corporation”, there are, however, those currently on that company’s payroll.
It’s their fault. The people. The humans. The ones working there. The ones knowingly employing their knowledge in service of the company.
It’s always the humans.
cute_boi 2 hours ago [-]
Politicians are also humans, everyone working for De Beers are also human... Please stop justifying egregious behavior from company who is destroying the fabric of internet with too many useless ads....And it isn't first time they are doing it, these "engineers" were the one who removed mv2 without better ad blocks in mv3.
tehlike 2 hours ago [-]
1. ads are not useless.
2. without ads, there would be significantly less free content for people to read.
3. politicians are human too, but not the best of us except a few. Yes.
It's hip to say ads make things worse, but reality is often much more nuanced.
My original point being, many times an external person may think something is intentional when it may very well be a bug or may be there for a good reason.
I have observed a few of those both as an external person or an internal person.
charcircuit 2 hours ago [-]
>useless ads
If the ads were useless, advertisers would not pay for them to exist.
>without better ad blocks in mv3
MV3 adblockers were built before MV2 was deprecated.
cute_boi 2 hours ago [-]
Just for your info classic ublock style doesn't work on mv3. Google have severely limited adblocking in chrome now. They deprecated very late due to pressure from people, not out of goodwill.
Useless to users, not to advertisers. And, many people like me have never purchased any products after seeing ads at least on internet.
tjpnz 2 hours ago [-]
Google needs to be broken up.
Abdullah_Sattar 51 minutes ago [-]
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Rendered at 06:08:45 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) with Vercel.
Until the day it no longer works. Sad.
you are a bit out of the loop if you think this is a partisan issue, or specifically one thats only there when trump is in charge
You can very easily look up exactly when Lina Khan was appointed and get answer very quickly. Is it not worth the effort checking these things before commenting?
Ok rant over. Sorry to be an asshole. This is not your fault as much a standard which should be changed.
She did not get appointed under Trump nor did substantial work done under his administration.
Edit: I do not necessarily disagree with your comment on the partisan aspects of this issue. This is only meant to respond to the first paragraph.
My screenshots do not show this, but my screenshots were not intended as proof, merely as explanation. Chrome is available to everyone and used by millions of people, so anyone who wants proof can reproduce the issue themselves, and I hope that they do.
No.
Not justifying it (I don't use chrome) but that's likely what's happening here.
Can google justify why are they doing this? I wish google will die sooner if they start behaving like this.
2) So you can't know what's searched without getting tracked
You're the product, not the customer.
Baby steps and they’ll try again.
That is a likely case. Chrome is their closed source software unlike the Chromium browser.
It’s their fault. The people. The humans. The ones working there. The ones knowingly employing their knowledge in service of the company.
It’s always the humans.
It's hip to say ads make things worse, but reality is often much more nuanced.
My original point being, many times an external person may think something is intentional when it may very well be a bug or may be there for a good reason.
I have observed a few of those both as an external person or an internal person.
If the ads were useless, advertisers would not pay for them to exist.
>without better ad blocks in mv3
MV3 adblockers were built before MV2 was deprecated.
Useless to users, not to advertisers. And, many people like me have never purchased any products after seeing ads at least on internet.