Google home page showing any open carts?

[Easto]

So, I opened a new tab in Chrome that took me to the Google search page and I found out there is a new feature that shows you any open carts you may have at any of their hardcoded sites. It was telling me that I still had 1 item in a cart from Costco (I think it was Costco). I know I'm being followed on the web by Google, but such a blatant... "hey, we're watching where you shop" was a little unsettling.

[Philip]

So, I opened a new tab in Chrome that took me to the Google search page and I found out there is a new feature that shows you any open carts you may have at any of their hardcoded sites. It was telling me that I still had 1 item in a cart from Costco (I think it was Costco). I know I'm being followed on the web by Google, but such a blatant... "hey, we're watching where you shop" was a little unsettling.

"They" not only know where you go and what you shop, they're using AI to make conclusions of who you are based on thousands of small pieces of information about you. We're being profiled in real-time.

[Easto]

Kinda sucks huh?

[Philip]

One can choose to clear out cookies and use "incognito mode", VPN (with all the image captchas), choose "no tracking" options in the browsers, not login and use their services. It is possible to go around all that, just that most people, me included, don't want to be inconvenienced by doing all that.

[Easto]

Yeah, I've considered trying to go "dark" as much as possible but it just adds so much to the process that I've never truly considered doing it. I guess that Google knowing that I have some Cal King sheets sitting in my Costco shopping cart isn't the end of the world.