Prevent Chrome from silently checking your PC for Windows 11 readiness and keep your hardware details off Google’s radar.

Windows 11 comes with Edge, which uses the same technology as Chrome. If you want Chrome, use Edge to navigate to the Google Chrome download page, and click Download Chrome .

Based on a Chromium commit, Google's web browser is peeking at whether your PC is eligible for Windows 11, and this functionality is supposedly live now.

Those on Windows 10 reported that they were having no issues, suggesting that there was something specifically within the Windows 11 KB5027231 patch causing Chrome to crash.

The Google Chrome web browser has a special flag that makes the user interface match Windows 11's new look. Here's how to find it.

Of course, if you're not a Windows Insider there's already an open-source alternative called WhyNotWin11 that you can use to check Windows 11 compatibility on your PC. However, that checks your PC ...