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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago
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A question for those "in the know" regarding my identity when browsing with Chrome....

Last year I set up an account at Pinterest.  Being that I ended up realizing I had no use for it, I closed the account shortly thereafter.  I hadn't been back to Pinterest since then.  As well, in be...
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    BirdDog
    7 years ago

    Think it could be the way Google+ is tied into Chrome these days. If you're logged into Google+ then it automatically keeps track of things like sites visited depending on the setting defaults and what you have allowed. YouTube is now part of the Google empire also so it is tied into your Google account.

     

    This link basically is the key to the kingdom and what you choose to allow: https://myaccount.google.com/security?pli=1

     

    Are you familiar with these Google settings: https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols  ?

     

    EDIT: That's wild, you have to highlight the above link and go to it, won't work as a direct hyperlink.

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GabeU
Distinguished Professor IV
7 years ago
MarkJFine wrote:

Quite possible that you had a Pinterest cookie in your Google cloud (or whatever they call it for Chrome) that showed you had an account that was no longer active. In fact that seems like the only viable reason.

Eek!  The thought of Google giving my info from the cloud is even worse, even if it's only basic info.  I think it may very well be time for me to give serious thought to switching to Firefox.  I've read a few articles, and a slew of posts over time, that indicate that Firefox is better for privacy.

 

I have dabbled with it over time, and I always have it installed as a secondary browser for when I need to compare something or other, but I could never set it exactly the way I liked because I couldn't find certain extensions.  I now have them.  I like it having a new tab open as a new, separate window, and on a web page I specify.  I could never get that to work before.  I'm not a tab person.   

 

I do like the idea of being able to use a browser in which I can be signed into Youtube, but don't have to be signed into the browser itself, as I don't care for the latter.