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		Dahoon on Nov 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Qwant: The Search Engine That Respects Your Privac... Startpage.com's new owner makes it less private than doing a search on Facebook while logged into your Google Chrome account.

1vuio0pswjnm7 on Nov 13, 2020 [–]

What is a "Chrome account"? Web browsers ask users to "sign-up" now? For what?

dersoi on Nov 13, 2020 | | [–]

To sync with your other devices. You keep your extensions, history, bookmarks, etc... It acts as a backup.

gogopuppygogo on Nov 13, 2020 | | [–]

To mine even more of your personal data.

They give you cloud sync functionality in return.

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