[Tip] Disable Shopping Deals and Price Tracking Features in Chrome

If you want to disable and remove all kind of shopping and price tracking features in Google Chrome web browser, you have come to the right place. This article will help you in getting rid of all shopping and price related features and tools in Google Chrome permanently.

Google Chrome web browser comes with many shopping related options to help users in finding the lowest price of a product and tracking its price. Following are a few examples of the built-in shopping functionality in Chrome:

• Shopping collection: Chrome automatically creates a new separate folder under bookmarks for all shopping related bookmarked webpages.
• Shopping list: Chrome creates a dedicated shopping list in bookmarks.
• Shopping list price tracking: When a user bookmarks a price-trackable product page, Chrome turns on price tracking feature automatically.
• Price tracking chip: Chrome automatically shows a chip in address bar (omnibox) containing price change information about the product.

Following screenshot shows one example of these built-in shopping and price tracking features in Google Chrome:

If you regularly purchase products from online shopping websites, these built-in features and tools might help you but if you don’t use Chrome for online shopping, these extra and unwanted feature might start annoy you.

Fortunately, Google Chrome team provides a few hidden secret preferences/flags which can be used to enable or disable these shopping features in Chrome browser.

If you also want to enable or disable all shopping and price tracking features in Chrome web browser, following steps will help you:

STEP 1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

STEP 2. Now type shopping in the “Search flags” box.

Look for following options in the results:

STEP 3. To activate and enable shopping related features in Chrome, select Enabled from the drop-down box for the above mentioned options.

To disable all shopping related features completely in Chrome, select Disabled from the drop-down box for the above mentioned options.

STEP 4. Again type price in the “Search flags” box.

Look for following options in the results:

STEP 5. To activate and enable price tracking features in Chrome, select Enabled from the drop-down box for the above mentioned options.

To disable price tracking features in Chrome, select Disabled from the drop-down box for the above mentioned options.

STEP 6. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.

That’s it. You have successfully enabled/disabled all shopping and price tracking features in Chrome based upon the preferences values.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore default setting in Chrome, select “Default” option from the drop-down box for the above mentioned options and restart the browser.

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