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> I have configured all of my browsers to clear cookies and storage upon closing. Dumb question, but how often do you close your browser though? Mine stays run
by throwaway613834 9y ago
> I have configured all of my browsers to clear cookies and storage upon closing.
Dumb question, but how often do you close your browser though? Mine stays running in the background so it's not often that it gets completely closed.
- sarcasmic 9y agoI close my browser (and all tabs, windows, and any instances of the same process) very frequently, and immediately after I'm done actively interacting with the page. My point is, I highly doubt my browser usage pattern reflects the way the median user browses the web, and yet even my careful usage wasn't enough to keep Google from correlating enough data about my browsing's attributes (IP, sites visited, location info, logged-in geo-IP), and then expose that cross-bleed in my face.
- Splines 9y agoDo you manually kill all browser processes? It's certainly plausible that there's a zombie process around so any singleton-thing that does cleanup on last process exit never got a chance to run.