I've ended up installing one of those "inspirational new tab page" extensions, just so I don't see an ad. I am sure that means someone else is siphoning my data.
Edit: See https://imgur.com/a/wQhvFF9
I switched to Firefox earlier this year, but the blatant memory leaks are making me strongly consider switching back to an old version of Chrome (v70 or so), which did not require a monstrous page file to run days or months without crashing.
[0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/earth-view-from-go...
it's just an .html file with an empty body, no tracking & 5 lines of JS:
window.addEventListener("load", () => {
if (chrome.extension.inIncognitoContext) {
document.body.style.background = "#53718e";
}
});