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Google Chrome pushes ahead with targeted ads based on your browser history (www.theregister.com)
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Google enables advertisers a look into your browsing history...

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[โ€“] wewbull@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When your browser is chrome, I totally understand. Otherwise, why?

[โ€“] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Because it's more secure, and portable. A password manager can fill information on programs and apps as well as the browser. It's also separate from the browser, so you don't have a single point of failure. Idk about now, but several years ago when I did use the Chrome password storage, a malicious user could retrieve passwords from the browser as long as they had physical access to the computer.