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I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

According to Steve Gibson's podcast, the analysis of your browsing history that converts it into topics is done in your browser, so presumably on your computer, not by sending the browsing history to a server. Only the resulting topics are shared with Google's servers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Ok. Still. Why is my browser using memory and spending cpu cycles on this shit?