https://www.maketecheasier.com/tighten-up-chromebook-privacy/ Uncomplicating the complicated, making life easier Sat, 28 Sep 2019 09:31:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.2 https://www.maketecheasier.com/tighten-up-chromebook-privacy/#comment-71896 Wed, 30 Jan 2019 04:33:06 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/?p=273891#comment-71896 I’m considering purchasing a Chromebook but am concerned that since it uses Android that I will someday be prevented from upgrading it like I am on my Android Tablet.
Dan

]]> https://www.maketecheasier.com/tighten-up-chromebook-privacy/#comment-71822 Fri, 25 Jan 2019 18:53:20 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/?p=273891#comment-71822 I use GalliumOS, a spin of Ubuntu that has the drivers for my Pixel. It uses XFCE desktop, which is kinda plain but low resources and should work well on those cheap Chromebooks. Firefox works well except not the pinch zoom.

]]> https://www.maketecheasier.com/tighten-up-chromebook-privacy/#comment-71797 Thu, 24 Jan 2019 19:50:02 +0000 https://www.maketecheasier.com/?p=273891#comment-71797 “How to Tighten Up Your Privacy on a Chromebook”
To tighten up one’s privacy on a Chromebook, one needs to divorce oneself 100% from Google, if that is even possible. Ditch Chrome OS, install a secure Linux distro and use a non-Google inspired web browser. As long as one uses Google products, privacy will be a pipe dream and data harvesting a daily occurrence.

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