Make it Shiny: Having Chrome Full PrivacyGoogle Chrome is the world’s most popular web browser. That’s if you don’t have an Explorer or Edge that you don’t have to. It’s kind of cheating after all the bundling it with Windows. Chrome is a really powerful browser. It’s fast lightweight, and it follows the very latest web standards. Thanks to its technical status it is also pretty safe. There are some issues with it however from a privacy point of view. As one thing this is not a package of open source software. That means people can not objectively scrutinize what information it gathers and what it does with it. That is one of Firefox’s big advantages. In my general browser privacy post, I’ve already touched on some of the standard Chrome privacy settings, but here we’ll look at the Chrome-specific settings you should know about. Decide carefully if Chrome still wants you to share information in the different ways it does. Typically your privacy is more precious than just a bit of convenience.
Do not let Chrome Sync You
Stop Chrome from chatting with Its Friends
Chrome uses a number of online services to get some apps working. If you choose not to speak to behind you web services, you can turn them off one-by-one. Just as long as you are able to live without the characteristics they carry. There’s a web service for example that lets Chrome determine what Url you’re typing. That’s a nice trick, but if you think of the kind of information that needs to be shared in order to make such predictions, you might not believe it’s worth it. .058 Here you can choose which features you can do without or turn off altruistic settings such as uploading data to Google through crash.
Take Web Content Control
.059 You can set your cookie settings to fine-tune the block lists for items like location here. The “keep local data before you leave your browser” is a good privacy compromise and will prevent sites from creating a detailed profile of you on their own computer. You might also want to toggle off JavaScript as a whole and you certainly trust only the whitelist pages. There is plenty to do here so take your time and see all the options.