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Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by djanogo on Saturday September 22, 2018 @06:13PM (#18048289)
I used to this do exactly, but switching to Firefox containers made Chrome redundant. Chrome uses too much memory to leave it running just for few websites, and Google including analytics script as builtin library was the last straw.
Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by calcifer on Sunday September 23, 2018 @02:02AM (#18049618)
> Google including analytics script as builtin library

Wait, what? Do you have a source for this?

Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by djanogo on Sunday September 23, 2018 @12:41PM (#18051861)
My bad, sorry, I was shown wrong in the below submission which I stopped checking few days after I posted it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16657472

Re:Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Brow... by toastal on Sunday September 23, 2018 @03:05AM (#18049802)
I feel the same way, but unfortunately I have some things tied Chrome-only extensions or apps. They really need to work on any WebExtension-capable platform...