[ale] [OT] A frightening thing

[Jim Kinney]

I dumped windows in 1997. Daily/Only driver is a Linux system. I trust chrome about as far as I can throw a full rack of google hardware. At chromium doesn't directly borg everything to the chocolate factory instantly. Firefox, icecat with private browsing and delete all cookies/traces on close.

On September 3, 2020 2:28:41 PM EDT, Calvin Harrigan via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>This auto start/monitoring feature is the main reason why I've never 
>adopted Chrome as a browser or even have it installed on my computers. 
>
>I tried chrome when it first came out.  I noticed that it ran 
>continuously even when closed.  I tried to track down how/where it was 
>loading.  I searched the regular places (windows 7 at the time)
>startup, 
>registry, services, etc.  I couldn't find it at first.  I eventually 
>found it buried deep in the system in where things like virus 
>scanners/etc resided.  I was disturbed enough, that I not only 
>uninstalled it, I reinstalled windows and vowed, never again. That was
>a 
>little over 10 years ago.
>
>On 9/3/2020 14:21, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
>> Google == spyware
>>
>> On September 3, 2020 2:13:08 PM EDT, JEFFREY LIGHTNER via Ale 
>> <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>     I recently became aware Google Chrome stays active even if you
>close it.   I had to go into Chrome settings to disable that.   I also
>modified services to not start automatically at boot.  I only use
>Chrome for the few sites that don't like Firefox.
>>
>>     Worse yet I found Google Crash Reporter (both 32 bit and 64 bit)
>starts automatically at boot even when I tell it to  not do that.  
>What I did that seems to work is went to the services then told it to
>open the folder containing it.   There I renamed the exe files so it
>can't find them on start up.  Online reading suggests the crash
>reporter is actually spyware and complains about the fact that things
>like Symantec AntiVirus label its executables as "safe" rather than
>blocking it as it should.
>>
>>     Also I found that Firefox was not clearing cache and history 
>automatically when I exit which  bugged me.  FF is my browser of choice
>and I usually tell it to clear on exit in the settings.  It's
>conceivable I somehow missed that check box on installing on this new
>laptop back in May but isn't like my usual paranoid self.  I realized
>something was amiss when Facebook started giving me ads for things I'd
>searched for in Firefox when Facebook wasn't active.
>>
>>     Now I hit Ctrl-Shift-Del often just to be sure I'm clearing in
>any browser I use.
>>
>>     P.S.  MS has great gall to put nagware about using their latest
>Edge release on any other browser I open.   It would be bad enough if
>they asked once and let me say "no" but they only give the "maybe
>later" option so ask every time I open another browser or sometimes if
>I just login to MS-Office.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>         On 09/01/2020 6:37 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>         On Sun, Aug 30, 2020 at 8:59 AM Leam Hall via Ale
>>         <ale at ale.org> wrote:
>>
>>                     Anyone familiar with this? Solutions that move
>>                     away from a company that collects and sells
>things
>>                     they shouldn't? 
>>
>>         Recognizing it is a problem is the first step to recovery.
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