Chrome again exempts Google from user site data settings

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As far as I can tell, www.google.com is the only site exempted by Chrome. Looking inside the ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default folder, it appears that the saved site data consists of Cookies, Local Storage, and Session Storage.

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I wish the government would move fast and break up the Google Search monopoly. Don’t even get me started about how when you’re not signed in to Google, all Google Search results are now opaque https://www.google.com/goto?url= garbage rather than the site URLs!

So yeah: Google have (not for the first time, and perhaps to nobody’s surprise) nerfed the privacy features of their own browser. Now it only fully respects the user’s privacy wishes when the user isn’t accessing a Google product. So when they use Google Search, GMail, Google Maps, YouTube, or – I suppose – any website with Google Analytics installed… the user’s privacy settings might not be respected.

I increasingly struggle to understand why so many folks use Chrome as their daily driver: it feeds the monopoly of Google, who time and time again show that they’re not trustworthy with that power. Meanwhile, if you really need Chrome-compatibility, there are no shortage of Chromium-powered browsers to meet every need. There is no need to specifically use Chrome, and doing so supports unethical digital surveillance by the world’s eighth-largest company.