Does Chrome spy on you?
Chrome doesn’t spy on you in the literal sense, but it’s made by Google, whose biggest income is ads, and the more you sign in and turn on sync, the more Google knows about you.
What does it know about you?
If you sign in with a Google account and turn on sync, your browsing history and bookmarks are saved in your account.
And many of the sites you visit carry trackers, from Google and others, that see what you browse and link you from one site to the next.
How do you cut down what it knows?
Review the sync settings in Chrome and the Web & App Activity settings in your Google account, and clear your history every so often.
Or change browsers
m7bok blocks trackers and makes each site see you as a separate device, so one site can’t link you to another. And your bookmarks and history come over from Chrome in one step.
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Last updated: 11 October 2026