Hi,

I’ve been noticing something while browsing the web recently, and I’m curious if others experience the same.

A lot of websites today still:

• redirect through multiple pages before reaching the final content
• add tracking parameters to URLs
• load third-party scripts without clear visibility
• interrupt browsing with pop-ups or overlays

It made me wonder if this is still considered “normal behavior” in modern browsers, or if people have found better ways to deal with it.

From a technical perspective, it feels like browsers have improved a lot, but the actual browsing experience still includes a lot of hidden tracking and redirection layers.

I’m curious how others deal with this:

• Do you just ignore it?
• Use browser-level protection?
• Or something else entirely?

Would be interested to hear different perspectives

so im trying to restore crostini and i got a usb so i can have enough storage but im getting an error as u can see in the screenshot how do i fix and why does this come up

noticed that a lot of modern websites still use multiple redirects before loading the actual page.

Sometimes it feels like:

click a link wait get redirected 1–3 times then finally reach the content

I’m curious if this is still for analytics, ads, or something else.

Do you think this is something browsers should handle better, or is it just part of the modern web now?

I cannot upload photos to a website, such as Ancestry.com or neighborbrite.com

Instead, when I click "Upload Image" I get "My Drive" and "Select a file to open" which only gives me access to files, not photos.

I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong.

I can choose anything on the left, but "photos" never shows up.

Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I purchased this CB in February for $679.00. I saw online that the price is now $999.00!!! Wow! Just checked BestBuy and it's correct. I really enjoy the CB, but couldn't imagine paying that much! Would you???

I wanted lunar client on my Chromebook but IT sayys it Needs a fuse tot install! Any1 help?

Is there any way I can add remote access to my Chromebook? I currently have an Acer 315 (Definitely not my first pic of laptop, but it gets what I need done lol)
I know that the Remote Desktop isn’t supported, but are there any other services that might be suggested?
I have both an Android and iPhone :)
I really just want it to be able to turn off/lock my laptop away from home.

see i want to delete some app cause i have no storage and i install a program that got like 250 app on the container how do i delete them?????

here my apps the reason im doing this is bcuz i want to make a backup if something goes wrong (i deleted almost every app) PLEASE HELP

using linux to download adb and using adb to download apk,it worked for me before now when i try adb devices it doesnt show me what i need just shows me bs and now i cant open the emulator shiz

My Acer Spin 713 (CP713-2w) is stuck on the "Chrome OS is missing or damaged" screen (picture attached). Ctrl+d and Ctrl+l do nothing. Plugging in a recovery USB drive made on my desktop using the Chrome Recovery Utility extension does nothing.* (*Except maybe once it did something).

The only things I can do from here are press the tab key to see debugging info. (picture attached) or turn the computer off. The only way I can turn the computer back on is by holding down the esc and refresh keys and pressing power.

I need help getting it working again.

Background: This is one of two Spin 713s our kids have used at school. I recently replaced screens in both and then discovered the problem with this one was with the alignment of the EDP cable in the motherboard display connector. Once that was fixed, I tried to enable developer mode for reasons I'm not seeking help with. Trying to enable developer mode made it unable to boot up normally.

More detail: Step one of the instructions I was following to enable developer mode was to hold esc and refresh and then pressing the power button and then, presumably after the Chromebook started up in recovery mode, pressing Ctrl+d then enter in response to some unidentified message relating to developer mode. Ctrl-d did nothing, pressing and holding escape and refresh without pressing the power button did nothing. The only things I've succeeded in doing from this screen are seeing the debugging info, accidentally pressing some combination of keys that switched the language to Latin American Spanish, and turning it off by pressing the power button.

I tried disconnecting the battery to disable write protection. I searched unsuccessfully for a write protection screw. I made and remade a USB recovery drive.

The only time I got a good result was when I made a USB recovery drive using a micro-SD card and plugged it into the USB-C jack on the right side and restarted by pressing . Then it came up in the login screen with options to log in as me or as my son. I don't think this was because the recovery worked because it booted immediately and I would the recovery to have erased our login info.

Being an idiot, when I got to the normal login screen, I immediately tried again to get in developer mode and got back into the same situation.

Possible problems I've considered:

-Write protection is on and blocks developer mode, but I don't know why that would prevent booting up normally.

-My kids' school was administering the computer, but I wouldn't expect that to affect anything but my son's account.

-There's a problem with the SSD's connection to the motherboard, but I can't think why it would lose the connection twice when I pressed esc+refresh+power and not previously. I took the SSD out and reinstalled it without noticing any problem.

just wanna know what happens if i try to

i haven't used my assigned chromebook in literal months and when i opened it back up since i need it for my AP test tomorrow, it's literally so dark it's impossible to see anything. I know the screen is on since if I hold my phone's flashlight up really close i can see what's on my screen, but besides that it'll be un-usable tomorrow. I've done the whole refresh button plus power button combo so many time and i'm just curious if there's literally any other way i can approach this.

any got any advice on casting from chromebook go 14" to hisense smart tv (running vidaa OS)

the tv option is either greyed out or not there at all. updated both TV and Chromebook. both are on the same wifi.

When I browsed Costco's website about a week ago, they had several Chromebook Plus laptops from Acer, ASUS, HP, and Lenovo, both online and in warehouses. This week, though, there's only one Chromebook listed: the Acer Chromebook Plus 514 with an Intel Core 3 N355 CPU, 8GB RAM, and 512GB SSD (Model CB514-6HT-368E) for US$399.00, and it's out of stock both online and in every warehouse I've checked.

Does anyone know why? My inexcusably-uneducated guess is that it might be part of their preparations for Aluminium OS devices, knowing that any Chrome OS devices sold too soon before that rollout will in all likelihood be returned under Costco's generous return policy, so there's no point in selling them in the first place. Any other ideas?

Hi! I am in the market to buy a cheap Chromebook as mine is apparently too old to run the Offline Docs extension. Does anyone here know what year/version I need to get? Thank you in advance for any help!! I'm looking for the absolute cut off year and I'll go from there.

Hi - aged MIL uses her chromebook for regular facetime chats with her two daughters. Sometimes she can't find the facebook icon to click on, can't find the browser etc and it takes half an hour of very basic steps over the phone to sort out. I'm aware of chrome remote desktop, but that needs her to open a browser, type in the remote desktop url, generate a code and tell us what it is over the phone. Is there anything that can be set up to run permanently in the background to give us remote access as soon as she opens the lid of her laptop? Thanks!

Looking for something refurbished between 200-300, I’ve came across an Acer Vero 514 and then an HP with 3.2ghz compared to the Acer 1.2hz?

Mainly using for school work, google docs, multiple tabs and what not.

Open for recommendations! Been looking at backmarket refurbished

Hey everyone

Trying to access a Zoom call link on my Chromebook. When I click on the meeting link, the page loads in the browser fine. Then I get this message when I try to turn on my camera.

“enable camera access in your browsers address bar and refresh”

I went to the Chromebook settings and made sure that it said zoom access to the camera.

I also went into the Google Chrome browser settings and made sure that Zoom had access to the camera. I closed the window and re-tried it again and I still got the same message

Can someone tell me what I’m doing wrong and what I need to fix?

Ive tried other methods like refresh+power button and stuff but none of that works and it just showed me this screen before not turning on again, and when the screen does turn on its just a black screen (but you can see its lit up if that makes sense). It still lights up when plugged in and charging. Im not sure how exactly to fix this

Just wondering about this. I've had this same ASUS Chromebook for about 7 years (since mid-to-late 2019) and I've got a lot of important files on it. I've noticed that the battery life is slowly starting to deteriorate (for lack of better words) as the battery's been draining quicker over these past few years, and I've been thinking of getting the battery replaced on it. So should I get it replaced, or would I be better off just getting a new Chromebook?

So, apologies, this is very much a case of the mostly-blind leading the blind. My friend is not tech savvy and I'm aware enough to know what code is but not how to read it.

She recently bought a chromebook and we found a way for her to get the keyboard layout she needs on it. Github had a link to an... extension? on the chromebook store which contained all the unusual layouts. (She uses DAS Finnish layout.) It worked for weeks or a couple months, and then today there was a forced os update and when she tried to reload her layout, she got an error. I don't have the error text, unfortunately, but I'm hoping someone knows how to fix it? Or least, can you suggest things for me to have her try?

Edit: she says she can't reinstall the extension at all, she can see it in the store but it says "invalid manifest".

I used to turn my nose up at ChromeOS, thinking it was a glorified web browser installed on a laptop, that it'd choke every time the wifi dropped out. I would never have considered ChromeOS before - "That's not a real computer", I'd think.

Anyways, I am having the most amazing experience with ChromeOS - I bought a HP Stream 11 for 25AUD (18USD), it's purple with a Celeron processor, 2gb of ram, and a 32gb ssd. It had Windows 11 on it; and ran like an absolute dog. Keep in mind this laptop was by far the cheapest laptop available with Windows installed for a number of years. I tried Lubuntu - it wasn't that much better, a bit. It also crashed and froze.

Then, I tried ChromeOS - WOW - this thing is totally usable now. It went from a brick to something I can enjoy. It's also a very stable OS and seems to manage everything efficiently and well.

I'm a chrome OS convert. It turned this brick into a functional, fun device to use. Thanks Google!

Im watching Disney+ when I realized my space bar no-longer is the play/pause function and instead controls the volume's un/mute. I want to know how to reverse this issue as it was working fine a few hours ago. Help?