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Originally Posted by j.p.s
That goes beyond interesting to terrible. I know chromium initiates a lot of traffic to google whatever the settings, but I wouldn't have thought that would extend to setting cookies against policy. Are you sure you didn't set an exception for Overdrive?
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I did some further digging into this. What I found is that the screenshot I posted above showing the Google and Doubleclick cookies was done while I had my ScriptSafe extension disabled. I did not realize that at the time I took the screenshot. I was doing testing to see if I could keep Overdrive from logging me out via cookie settings, and also via selectively allowing some Javascript. Those Google/Doubleclick cookies were coming when I loaded the Overdrive webpage, but with all Javascript enabled. When I disabled all Javascript and reloaded the Overdrive webpage (after exiting the browser to clear everything out), those Google/Doubleclick cookies did not appear when the Overdrive webpage was loaded (and "block all third party cookies" was enabled). So it appears that "block all third party cookies" does NOT stop 3rd party cookies that are planted via the Javascript route.
In the old days, you used to be able to get by blocking all Javascript. But these days, most websites will not function without their Javascript. So the issue have become, "selectively block some Javascript". Easier said than done once you look and see all the Javascript from various places that most websites use. Overdrive is not too bad when it comes to loading Javascript from different websites, but it does load a bunch of scripts from Google.
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In any case, there are chromium derived browsers that set out to purge google from chromium. among them are brave and ungoogled chromium.
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Google Chrome is built on Chromium. Chromium is not a stripped down version of Google Chrome. Chromium should be Google-free because the Google stuff is added on top of Chromium, which turns it into Google Chrome. At least that's the way I understand it. And that's also the reason why I use Chromium and not Chrome. However, who develops Chromium? Google!!! So it is doubtful that Chromium is totally Google-free. It is probably more Google-free than Chrome though.