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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Thursday November 12, 2020 @10:17PM (#25078429)
What is a "Chrome account"? Web browsers ask users to "sign-up" now? For what?
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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by dersoi on Friday November 13, 2020 @12:44AM (#25079304)
To sync with your other devices. You keep your extensions, history, bookmarks, etc... It acts as a backup.
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Re:Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privacy by gogopuppygogo on Friday November 13, 2020 @02:31AM (#25079938)
To mine even more of your personal data.

They give you cloud sync functionality in return.

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