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The sentence you cite seems unrelated to "Worse than Chrome?". Google's web services have lots of tracking, but Chrome itself (like Firefox and Safari), accordi
by bla3 7y ago
The sentence you cite seems unrelated to "Worse than Chrome?". Google's web services have lots of tracking, but Chrome itself (like Firefox and Safari), according to this article, doesn't send a persistent tracking UUID, while Edge and Yandex browser do.
- kds3 7y ago> Chrome itself (like Firefox and Safari), according to this article, doesn't send a persistent tracking UUID According to the article: > Edge also sends the hardware UUID of the device to Microsoft and Yandex similarly transmits a hashed hardware identifier to back end servers.“ But Chrome also sends Chrome installation ID in X-Client-Data [0], which looks pretty much like hardware UUID. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22236106
- artjomb 7y agoIt does, but only to google domains and only in non-incognito mode. If you're still paranoid and clear your cookies after you close Chrome, you can add a commandline option to Chrome so that this UUID is randomized on each start of Chrome.