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Re:It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance by jiveturkey on Sunday April 15, 2018 @03:21PM (#16844384)
Chrome only collects information on you if you “sign in” doesn’t it? Which it doesn’t do by default although yeah it does push you to make that choice.

And all the browsers need you to sign in if you want multi device sync.

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Re:It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance by galfarragem on Sunday April 15, 2018 @04:54PM (#16844900)
I use Chrome without signing in but I'm sure it doesn't make a difference: Google knows your IP and the IP from where you normally use Gmail. I don't believe that they don't infer who is using Chrome.
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Re:It’s time to give Firefox a fresh chance by acqq on Sunday April 15, 2018 @05:42PM (#16845157)
Google collects enough information even without Chrome, and very much so without you signing in. I know because I use only Firefox or iOS. And then even if I never watch youtube logged in, youtube videos that I once watched "follow" me even to the other, new computers or locations. I'm sure about that because it's very exact songs, very exact groups etc.
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