[LightHugger]

Chrome is now scanning every file on your computer and sending back metadata to google unless you opt-out in the name of "we made our browser an antivirus too!" but nobody sane believes that stuff.

At least use a different chromium based browser instead of chrome itself. Brave is a fine option.

[kccqzy]

That feature was introduced in 2015 and they removed it already. https://security.googleblog.com/2023/03/thank-you-and-goodby...

[jrm4]

Good point, Linux guy here, I always use Chromium -- perhaps this is a Linux thing but I always forget that there's a difference.