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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by aarchi on Sunday October 18, 2020 @02:52PM (#24820186)
Yes, Chromium has this same behavior.

ungoogled-chromium is a project that removes Google integration from Chromium. Here is the patch they use to remove this special treatment of Google sites:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/pa...

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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by jug on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:10PM (#24820292)
Eh, so doubleclick.net, ad network extraordinaire, gets special treatment as a "Google host" as well? Eww.
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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by ComodoHacker on Sunday October 18, 2020 @04:13PM (#24820747)
Google owns Doubleclick since 2007, shouldn't be a surprise.
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Re:Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings by _qulr on Sunday October 18, 2020 @03:06PM (#24820274)
Thanks! That's surprisingly short.

Now the question is how those IsGoogle functions are used in storage handling.

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