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Brutakas posted:Chrome version 69 will auto-login to the browser when you login to google services (and logout when you logout as well) I could have sworn that Chrome already did this anyway? Guess I was wrong.
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ThermoPhysical posted:Google already has your browser history and information when you use their browser. Same for Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft. Google does, yes. At least one of the others lets you opt out of some/all of the collection of such. quote:This isn't new. What's new is the dark pattern described in the post Brutakas linked. quote:This is only an inconvenience if you use a shared device. Otherwise this will not affect you. It's an inconvenience and affects you if you don't want to be signed into your browser. There's a buried 'experimental' flag that opts you out of some (but, based on reports, not all!) of the account consistency features. How long do you suppose Google will support it? chocolateTHUNDER posted:I could have sworn that Chrome already did this anyway? Chrome used to ask (and respect your decision if you said no).
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astral posted:Google does, yes. At least one of the others lets you opt out of some/all of the collection of such. https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity has existed long before this was a thing. Also where do you think Siri and Cortana get their information from? There's nothing "dark" going on. It's just "Hey, you should sign in to your account so your stuff is saved if you want to pick it up elsewhere or use Assistant to help you later". Are there privacy concerns? Sure. But then you shouldn't use Assistant, Cortana, Siri or even iOS, Android, or Windows. This is starting to become an age-old debate at this point...
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ThermoPhysical posted:https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity has existed long before this was a thing. I mean, I don't use the Assistant for anything other than quickly setting timers, and don't do anything on my Windows and Android machines I wouldn't be comfortable with everyone and their mother knowing about anyway. The main reason I have a Mint dual-boot is for anything sensitive I don't want the corporate all-seeing eye to see... or any malware on them. Only reason I stopped using SRWare Iron on my desktop is because it display a pink cast for some reason now, while Chrome doesn't.
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Sep 24, 2018 20:40
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ThermoPhysical posted:https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity has existed long before this was a thing. I think we might be having a miscommunication since we both agree there are privacy concerns. Dark patterns are, to quote darkpatterns.org, "tricks used in websites and apps that make you buy or sign up for things that you didn't mean to." When signing into a google service in the Chrome browser now also signs you into the browser by default whether you want to or not, that's a dark pattern. And, yes, Cortana and Siri do indeed have dark patterns in their initial setup.
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I don't understand the complaints. "Ahh, my eyes?" Nothing looks any brighter or overly contrasty to me. The tabs, eh... I can take either. And I like the rounded address bar.
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Sep 26, 2018 21:42
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It doesn't fit into the Windows 10 design language at all and looks like an old version of Firefox. All that rounded stuff simply clashes with other applications and especially UWP ones. They should be emulating Edge and not implement some bastardized and devolved version of Material design.
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Sep 26, 2018 21:46
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Lambert posted:It doesn't fit into the Windows 10 design language at all and looks like an old version of Firefox. All that rounded stuff simply clashes with other applications and especially UWP ones. They should be emulating Edge and not implement some bastardized and devolved version of Material design. The more apps I can access via my browser the better. MS should be trying to match my browser not the other way around.  (for real though, I gave up caring about a unified experience across all my applications a decade ago. Web apps all look different, and very large percentage of native apps don't match any sort of standard...and you know what? I don't really care at all.)
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I don't either. Guess that's why I didn't understand the fuss.
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Sep 27, 2018 02:23
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Lambert posted:It doesn't fit into the Windows 10 design language at all and looks like an old version of Firefox. All that rounded stuff simply clashes with other applications and especially UWP ones. They should be emulating Edge and not implement some bastardized and devolved version of Material design. If there is one thing Google shouldn't be doing it's emulating Edge.
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Sep 27, 2018 05:21
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Google Images search now looks extremely fugly. How can I revert this, if possible?
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Sep 28, 2018 05:29
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GIS "beautiful scenes"
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Sep 29, 2018 02:59
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I am trying to figure out why embedded videos in tweets won't play. If I open a tweet in an incognito window then it works, so it is something in my setup. I have disabled all of my extensions (adblock, etc.) and it still doesn't work so it isn't something from an extension. I don't see anything in the settings that would affect embedded videos, what am I missing?
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Oct 5, 2018 00:38
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Embedded tweets have stopped rendering properly altogether for me
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A colleague of mine is getting the Symantec cert warning on a site (https://secure.e-customer-service.com/), but I'm not. As far as I can tell from inspecting the cert, I should be getting the warning, but it's not popping up. Any idea why? Did I disable something at some point? edit: figured it out, apparently Google is slow rolling that wyoak fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Nov 2, 2018 |
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Nov 2, 2018 18:36
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I've started using Messages for Web to receive text messages from my Android phone via Chrome tab, but would reallllly like aggressive desktop notifications of new messages, something that will nudge me hard when I'm on the PC/Mac but not keeping an eye on the Messages for Web tab. An audio cue, a popup, anything. The standard notification that's enabled in Settings appears to be buggy, it doesn't work consistently at all and I'm not sure why...does anyone know of an extension that does the same thing? There seem to be a number of Messages-for-Web-type interfaces in the Chrome store and it's hard to tell which ones have which any options on that front. Thanks in advance for any insight anyone might be able to provide.
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Dec 5, 2018 01:28
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I find that desktop notifications start lagging behind/get delayed after a while so I suck to Chrome notifications.
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I've just updated Chrome and they appear to have killed the ability to mute a tab by clicking on the little speaker icon, which is awful. I don't suppose there's some extension that can restore that functionality, or at least work as a half decent replacement somehow? Edit: Also now I can't actually mute individual tabs-- if I right click on a tab and mute it, it mutes every tab that's on that domain. What the gently caress? Cabbit fucked around with this message at 23:40 on Dec 7, 2018 |
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Cabbit posted:I've just updated Chrome and they appear to have killed the ability to mute a tab by clicking on the little speaker icon, which is awful. I don't suppose there's some extension that can restore that functionality, or at least work as a half decent replacement somehow? You're not the only one annoyed at the fact they've axed that functionality completely. Every other browser does this - their rationale that the browser shouldn't take control of media playing on sites is simply ridiculous.
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Let's just let web sites take control of the browser. That's why Google Chrome allows pop-ups, right?
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Cabbit posted:I've just updated Chrome and they appear to have killed the ability to mute a tab by clicking on the little speaker icon, which is awful. I don't suppose there's some extension that can restore that functionality, or at least work as a half decent replacement somehow? I actually came to ask the same thing. Might actually have to switch to firefox if this isn't just a bug.
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Harminoff posted:I actually came to ask the same thing. Might actually have to switch to firefox if this isn't just a bug. It's not a bug, their support team has confirmed the removal as being intentional. The context menu option has changed as well, from "Mute this tab" to "Mute this site". Tab mute had been relegated to being an obscure settings flag when the changeover happened, those tend to get removed a few versions down the line. This is all in line with how Google tends to roll out new features/changes to Chrome.
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For the (probably) temporary fix, go to chrome:flags and search for "muting" and disable the setting that appears.
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I realize there likely isn't a universal solution but are there any good options for adding dark modes to sites that don't have one built in?
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CampingCarl posted:I realize there likely isn't a universal solution but are there any good options for adding dark modes to sites that don't have one built in? I tend to use Stylus on a case by case basis but I believe there's one that'll smart invert stuff for you on all sites
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Is there a theme that'll make Chrome look just like it did before the material design tabs we have now?
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Cabbit posted:I've just updated Chrome and they appear to have killed the ability to mute a tab by clicking on the little speaker icon, which is awful. I don't suppose there's some extension that can restore that functionality, or at least work as a half decent replacement somehow? I didn't even know Chrome did this, but if folks are talking about muting YouTube in tabs you might try the Enhancer for YouTube extension which, among other things, pauses any playing videos when you start another one. I find it really useful if I'm playing music in the background and play an embedded video on the forums. Saves me having to switch tabs, pause/mute then switch back. fake edit: I'm not the developer btw
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nexus6 posted:I didn't even know Chrome did this, but if folks are talking about muting YouTube in tabs you might try the Enhancer for YouTube extension which, among other things, pauses any playing videos when you start another one. I find it really useful if I'm playing music in the background and play an embedded video on the forums. Saves me having to switch tabs, pause/mute then switch back. I ended up just installing some addon that lets me mute a tab with a keybind, which is a decent alternative. On a similar note: with this latest Chrome update, I categorically cannot get the mini player to open for Google Play Music, which is also pretty annoying.
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I simply accept that now I have to right click -> mute tab instead of clicking once. Annoying, but as long as that settings flag still exists I'm okay.
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I've been using smart mute which works pretty well. It mutes everything but the active window. You can whitelist websites and whatnot if need be as well. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/smart-mute/apadglapdamclpaedknbefnbcajfebgh
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MohShuvuu posted:Is there a theme that'll make Chrome look just like it did before the material design tabs we have now? Yeah they removed the UI flag for the old style tabs and I hate the poor at a glance tab separation. Please tell me there's a fix for this.
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Dec 18, 2018 08:11
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Yea, Firefox.
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Combat Pretzel posted:Yea, Firefox. Is there a replacement for DownThemAll! on the new Firefox yet? I haven't upgraded to Quantum or whatever they want to call it yet since they broke extensions to try and be like Chrome.
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So the new Brave version looks like it's just Chrome. It has the exact same settings with minor changes, even has a user section at the top right. It all seems rather anti-privacy, frankly. But it does all the normal Chrome things like let you use extensions so that's nice.
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Whenever I do a google search the first five-ten entries or so are advert links that are barely relevant to what I'm looking for, this is a very recent thing and it is loving pissing me off to no end. Is there a way to get rid of this poo poo? It's so pervasive now.
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Does it do it in incognito mode? Sounds like you have a rogue extension or some other malware.
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eSporks posted:Does it do it in incognito mode? Sounds like you have a rogue extension or some other malware. It doesn't do it in incognito mode. I have ublock origin and ran a scan but nothing showed up.
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If it doesn't do it in incognito its most definitely some extension. Disable them one by one until you find the culprit.
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Cheers friend. It was the dark youtube theme extension that was causing it. Why these authors act like bastards all of a sudden is beyond me. It never did it until recently. While searching for alternatives, I've found that youtube now naturally has a dark theme built in, so that's a win! I guess that's why the author decided to turn the extension into some rogue app. Zedsdeadbaby fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Dec 22, 2018 |
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What usually happens is a company buys it and then turns it into malware, it's not the original author.
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