Google lies about how the Chrome browser works, and works against user privacy in other ways.
I’ve been testing Chrome on both Windows and Linux, and checking the results manually in terms of cookies and other privacy issues. First of all, Chrome ignores some of your preferences. After specifically telling it to consider all Google domain cookies as session cookies only, it still keeps them as long as Google wants them set. You can set Chrome to delete all cookies at the close of session and that will work, but if you try more detailed settings, by trying to manage how different domains are accepted or not, there are certain domains where it will not work, including “google.com” of course.
It works the same with several major advertising domains and their tracking cookies. Even if you specifically set the manager to block cookies from, say, doubleclick.com, Chrome will accept them and save them. You have to go back and manually remove them.
This all follows from a couple of years ago when Chrome developers removed the prompt which allowed you to make your choices on-the-fly. The Google developers, working with the Webkit folks, have steadfastly ignored any requests for putting that feature back in, and do not respond to complaints the cookie management does not work properly. For all the potential good Chrome offers as a better browser in general, you have to understand Google has become hostile to user interests.
Google does evil.
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Can’t say I’m surprised by this. One can only hope that Chromium doesn’t do the same.
As always, I don’t say avoid using it, just be aware and use it wisely. For me, it’s the trash browser, the one I use to visit places that need lots of JavaScript power, presents lots of graphics and other multimedia junk, and so forth. And when the session is done, I scrape the backside clean.