Chrome won't clear your Google and YouTube data – even if you tell it to

A rehashed and worse article than their linked source, which was discussed here a few days ago: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24817304" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24817304</a>

Remember a few years ago, Microsoft was running its failing Scroogle campaign and I (under a different nick) and others were defending Google.<p>Fast forward to today and Google has managed to do to itself all that the Scroogle campaign could realistically have hoped to achieve and then some:<p>- techies like me go out of our way to avoid them. I just spoke to a friend of mine during lunch and told him to think twice before using Gmail as a single misplaced comment on the Internet can get you locked out with no recourse except hoping for friends on social media if you are so lucky.<p>- People are still making Chrome-applications just like they made IE6 applications but we are turning the tide now it seems and I see a growing trend that loathes the Chrome-only trend.<p>- Regulators are circling in the air above.<p>- etc.

It feels like there&#x27;s not a day in recent hn history without a story that makes a compelling case for harsh antitrust on Google. Even the services that you could think are peripheral to their model partake in this.

People loved Chrome when it was released.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=292980" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=292980</a><p>Slowly after they gained monopoly and became sure that they are going to exist in browser-space , they now don&#x27;t care about these tracking bits present in the browser.

The best way to think of Chrome these days is that it is a Google web browser, as in, it preferences products and services made by Google.<p>Edge is similar in some ways, but modern Chrome is not a web browser per se but a web browser clearly built by Google with Google’s corporate interests at heart.<p>The disconnect for many - including myself - is that we remember the first few years of Chrome. How revolutionary it was and how it provided a beautiful path off ‘the terror’ that was Internet Explorer. Modern Chrome is not the same browser, philosophically. Modern Chrome is a Google web browser and integrates the best - and increasingly by default - with Google’s many products and services.

This doesn&#x27;t really surprise me, but the number of people trying to justify it really surprises me.

I’ve hated Google ever since they started automatically signing me into Search when I signed into YouTube.<p>I fix this by deleting all cookies matching “google” after signing into YouTube, but sometimes I forget to and it infuriates me to see my name in the corner when I search for anything.<p>Even on iOS they use a browser window to make you sign-in so it cookies up your entire device.<p>Thankfully the quality of Google Search results has been going downhill for years so it&#x27;s honestly not that much of a difference to switch to DuckDuckGo as the default engine now.

Google has gone rouge for a very long time... Avoid Google if you can.

chrome is a perfect example of abusive software that everyone seems to love

MS Edge doesn&#x27;t have this feature. Just tested it on my machine. It clears all forms of storage even from MS&#x27;s own domains tied to the browser like msedge.microsoft.com, msn etc.

For some reason Google&#x27;s Captchas work much better on Chrome than on Firefox. I thought there was some sort of dedicated tracking built into Chrome. It turned out to be far simpler. They just give google sites special treatment.

Why was this flagged as a dupe instead of the dupe that didn&#x27;t get any attention, and why haven&#x27;t they just been merged? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24849558" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=24849558</a><p>Is criticism of Google being silenced with flagging?