Google tracks consumers' online activities across products, and users can't opt out - T... - 0 views
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W. Brock Son on 29 Jan 12While this policy does not apply to the Google Chrome browser; the newest iteration (version 16) of Google Chrome always asks you to sign in to "your Google Account" when it starts. Even if you do not sign in to the Google Account, it takes longer to get to your webpages that you want to view. If you signed into the Google Account and they tracked you, this would likely make the browser perform less quickly. Google's search (pun intended) for advertising dollars is not only making people leery about privacy issues, but it also impacting the quality of their browser, in my opinion; as a browser's primary focus should be to display webpages (as Internet Explorer does not try to get me to buy Microsoft Word). I feel that this could hurt their business in the short run, and maybe even permanently.