From its very beginning Google was playing ball with China monitoring its citizens web use... I have avoided Google from day 1... however, I see that they still track me while browsing, even signing in to FR.
I hope you can purge Chrome from your computer... may not be easy.
I’m going to try. I only downloaded a few years ago because I needed it for some conference video things, and Firefox wouldn’t handle the job.
I clicked on the qanon link and got qanon screen, but a moment layer got a g ogle popup saying ‘virus’ and asking if I wanted to remove it,
I will be checking with a non FF and non chrome browser....