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Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!
I recently updated to chrome 64 and now I have a strange issue where every time I close my browser all my cookies get deleted.

I realize that there is an option under cookies that does exactly this except it isn't checked. In fact the option itself is disabled because I have all cookies blocked, which when set, disables the option.



I used a different computer with chrome and was able to reproduce this problem. Also, I don't have any extensions installed and I haven't touched any of the chrome://flags.

Is there some setting somewhere that I don't know about that could be causing this? Or am I misreading how "Keep local data only until you quit your browser" works? (Despite being disabled)

Or is it just a bug that I should report?

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Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

theratking posted:

I think you're probably hitting crbug.com/800414, which should be fixed in Chrome 64.0.3282.140 as far as I can tell. If you are already on that version you should probably file a new bug.

Yeah that's the version I'm on: 64.0.3282.140. I ended up making a bug report.

The interesting part is only those cookies that contain https in the rule itself are the ones being deleted after the browser gets closed.

Works fine:
code:
[*.]google.com
Works fine until the browser is closed:
code:
[url]https://[/url][*.]google.com:443
If you use Chrome to create the rule, it creates the rule with the https stuff

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!
Chrome version 69 will auto-login to the browser when you login to google services (and logout when you logout as well)

https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895536/google-chrome-69-log-in-sync-password-user-data-privacy

quote:

But with Chrome 69, the latest version of the browser, whenever someone logs in to a Google service like Gmail or YouTube, they are now automatically logged in to Chrome as well.

Personally, not a fan as I never log in to chrome. If people were forgetting to log out completely on shared devices, that's their problem. At least make it an opt-in instead of forcing the log in by default for everyone.

Flag to disable is here:
chrome://flags/#account-consistency

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

Fellatio del Toro posted:

love this new garbage where typing in the address bar prioritizes autocompleting recent google searches instead of the website names I've typed a million times in the last 10 years

Could it be this?

Settings -> Advanced -> Sync and Google services


Granted I'm still using chrome 73 so maybe that option is gone or something.

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!
Looks like Chrome Edge has been released.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge

It's incredibly identical with some wording changed here and there (eg favorites instead of bookmarks). Seems to also have gained the tracking protection that Firefox has. Other than the padding between some ui elements, I like it so far.

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

Pablo Bluth posted:

There's a bunch of stuff coming out from the anti-trust case that recently started:
https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/22/google_facebook_antitrust_complaint/

https://twitter.com/fasterthanlime/status/1452053938195341314

I switched to Firefox mobile recently (the decision to enforce the stupid tab grouping thing pushed me over the edge). I've just decided top try going all-in on Firefox on the desktop.



The chrome browser sign in thing is what made me stop using chrome. Anyway, I hope some real consequences come out of this.

Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

Klyith posted:

Google Chrome 2023: we renamed FLoC to "privacy sandbox" so you wouldn't notice

This was a good bit from the article:

quote:

...Google argues that there has to be a tracking alternative—you can't just not be spied on. The Electronic Frontier Foundation also argued this when it called Google's FLoC a "terrible idea," saying "[Google's] framing is based on a false premise that we have to choose between 'old tracking' and 'new tracking.' It’s not either-or. Instead of re-inventing the tracking wheel, we should imagine a better world without the myriad problems of targeted ads."

There must be tracking! There must! --giant corporation that depends on advertising for revenue

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Brutakas
Oct 10, 2012

Farewell, marble-dwellers!

C-Euro posted:

It does, but Google claims that files in Trash don't count towards storage during their 60-day purgatory. I suppose they could just be lying to me.

There was also an instance where I downloaded about 700 MB of pictures, then when I went to delete them Google claimed that I'd be getting back about 12 MB in space. I can see the size of the .zip file that these pictures were in, please stop lying to my face!

I recently did this for a family member and had the same experience. The issue seems to be that really old stuff doesn't count towards the cap (likely grandfathered in before the cap?). Only newer/recent stuff is actually taking up account space and counting against the cap.

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