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john lehet

@stux Simply having installed Chrome on your computer without thoroughly uninstalling all the embedded bits of it means you don’t have full privacy. Even after you delete the application, there are bits phoning home to google every day. You can be sure google is using every ping it can to fingerprint and track you.

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afrangry

@johnlehet @stux that's very alarming. Do you happen to know how to delete the remaining bits?

john lehet

@afrangry @stux Yeah, on the mac I used the “Find Any File” App. I did this I think on Sunday. Many of the bits I found had been updated that day, in spite of my having deleted Chrome months ago. If you do a web search on this you can see Google does this and these embedded updaters are aggressive. Some people report bad impacts from them.

I noticed when I had an error on a backup. Checking, it was one of these files which had apparently been in the middle of updating during the backup.

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