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I have just embraced it at this point. I give google maps access to my location history too for the timeline feature

I use the feature. You choose what to share. It's not sharing any tab/page until you tell it to.

Frankly this ship has sailed long time ago, as sad as it sounds.

Only if you choose to use google products.

Plenty of better paid alternatives.

If you're not using Google products you're most likly not using Chrome, so have nothing to worry about with this.

I worry for other people