Nah, I've just accepted it as part of life. If my bank is already using Google Analytics, what difference does it make if Chrome juices the data a bit more? And as far as tracking what content I view, I only use that browser for work, so I actually want it to learn about me (e.g. I have Google search history enabled on that account). Any browsing for leisure, medical, political, etc. purposes, I do in Firefox where I only log into pseudononymous accounts not associated with my main email or name.
But I do disable as much Chrome telemetry as possible, including features like auto-suggest and pre-loading, and I don't "log in" to the browser with my Google account (despite the constantly changing dark patterns trying to trick me into doing that). It's not much but it's good enough.
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You have a lot more faith that Google isn't collecting data on every last website you visit than I do.
Nah, I've just accepted it as part of life. If my bank is already using Google Analytics, what difference does it make if Chrome juices the data a bit more? And as far as tracking what content I view, I only use that browser for work, so I actually want it to learn about me (e.g. I have Google search history enabled on that account). Any browsing for leisure, medical, political, etc. purposes, I do in Firefox where I only log into pseudononymous accounts not associated with my main email or name.
But I do disable as much Chrome telemetry as possible, including features like auto-suggest and pre-loading, and I don't "log in" to the browser with my Google account (despite the constantly changing dark patterns trying to trick me into doing that). It's not much but it's good enough.