Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring • Hacker News Board

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by gpm » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 12:53 AM UTC

HappyFunGuy wrote: post #7

frognition wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.

What good browser is free of this horror?

Firefox?

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by Trundle » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 12:57 AM UTC

HappyFunGuy wrote: post #7

frognition wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.

What good browser is free of this horror?

Chromium?

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 12:58 AM UTC

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Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by dangrossman » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:03 AM UTC

I saw this screen this week. I recently reinstalled Windows and Chrome, that might have been when. It was asking me to opt in, not opt out, before sharing this data.

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by JJJollyjim » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:05 AM UTC

HappyFunGuy wrote: post #7

frognition wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.

What good browser is free of this horror?

Firefox prompts you before even turning on search prediction, and it asks you about telemetry at first startup.

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by kminehart » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:11 AM UTC

Trundle wrote: post #12

HappyFunGuy wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What good browser is free of this horror?

Chromium?

Is it though?

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by yaur » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:13 AM UTC

OTOH when I got the opt in page I took the opportunity to opt out of everything.

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by wangweij » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:22 AM UTC

While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google". How much can Google collect from those sites?

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by JoshTriplett » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:24 AM UTC

wangweij wrote: post #18

While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google". How much can Google collect from those sites?

> While I am able to switch to another browser (I already did a long time ago), I don't believe I can avoid visiting sites "that show ads from Google".

You can block those ads, and the scripts that serve them and collect data.

Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

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Post by oolongCat » Mon, Jul 18, 2016, 1:28 AM UTC

Whenever I see these things I wonder, are there any plugins or any automated tools that would help fuzz search results.

So for example, send search requests to google randomly for items like "ducks", "fishing ponds", "banana leaves" etc, totally unrelated nonsense that will skew these tracking giants provided enough people install and run these tools.