Google is straying from its Don't Be Evil path...
That ship sailed the moment they had to actually state it as a goal.
Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
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Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#132I don't know, I'm starting to think that all this is either propaganda for ad sellers or a prank Google, Facebook et all are doing to me. Google has my full search history, all my hangout chats, all my e-mails, and yet: * On my Android, it keeps proposing ultra boring "stories to read" about soccer, wannabe celebrities and YouTube videos of stupid teenagers doing stupid things; * With the sole exception of when the s…
Have you turned off customized advertisements? After reading one of those occasional "Turn off Google's privacy invasion in three small steps" posts perhaps...
Poorly related ad choices happen to me as well, and I'm surely never bothered to change any related setting.
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#133There's Chromium Inox[0] which is just a patchset on top of the Chromium build to remove much of the mothership home-calling. Inox seems to be much closer to Chromium than many of the other Chrome-privacy spinoffs. Contrary to popular belief, Chromium still has a lot of Google in it. I always feel like artificially patching a project that doesn't care about your concerns natively to be plugging holes in a sponge boat…
inox is good stuff! You need to install plugins from source though.
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#134Meanwhile, Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history. Consider your choices.
I didn't realize how much data Google had on me until my search terms I used on my laptop was almost immediately available on my smartphone. I felt shocked and kind of stalked as well. The data especially on Android can easily be hacked if someone has the expertise. This made me think how easy it would be for stranger to learn everything about me through my data.
IIRC chrome sync data is separate from google data and you can encrypt it by adding a password which Google claims makes it so they don't read your data
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/1181035?p=settings_...
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#135Meanwhile, Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history. Consider your choices.
> Meanwhile, Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key Didn't they drop it like 9months ago and moved to Firefox Sync?
The new system, Firefox Sync, is the one that encrypts your history with a password-derived key, by means of HKDF. Mozilla cannot decrypt and read your data.
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#136While 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?
I highly recommend: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock https://github.com/gorhill/umatrix
There's also Privacy Badger by EFF: https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
To be fair, Chrome has exactly that feature to, and let's the user choose what they want.
Is Chrome's sync not a blob? I tried to find information about it online, but the official documentation [0] is less than helpful to say the least. I'm guessing when they say "stuff", that's a euphemism for blob, but fuck if I know, maybe they are just trying to be hip in their documentation. After all, it's also business time, in case you didn't know. Currently downloading the Chromium source code, to see if that's…
Alright, status report.
The official documentation talks about the folders /chrome/browser/sync/engine, /chrome/browser/sync/syncable and /chrome/browser/sync/protocol.
These folders are missing from the source tree, as you can see here: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...
However, I decided to give the benefit of the doubt and did a few file-searches, in case the files were moved at some point and the documentation was just not updated.
And it seems like that's actually the case. The folder /sync contains all three missing folders (engine, syncable, protocol) and more: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/master/...
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#138Meanwhile, Firefox Sync encrypts your data with a password-derived key so that Mozilla can't even see your browsing history. Consider your choices.
I didn't realize how much data Google had on me until my search terms I used on my laptop was almost immediately available on my smartphone. I felt shocked and kind of stalked as well. The data especially on Android can easily be hacked if someone has the expertise. This made me think how easy it would be for stranger to learn everything about me through my data.
I like that very much.
Whenever i'm doing something with my normal chrome -> I'm part of the system and look / am normal.
Whenever i wanna do something little bit different, i use incognito mode and a different browser.
Re: Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring
#139I don't know, I'm starting to think that all this is either propaganda for ad sellers or a prank Google, Facebook et all are doing to me. Google has my full search history, all my hangout chats, all my e-mails, and yet: * On my Android, it keeps proposing ultra boring "stories to read" about soccer, wannabe celebrities and YouTube videos of stupid teenagers doing stupid things; * With the sole exception of when the s…
I keep getting Ads about cars (probably because I'm 30 years old male) despite the fact that I've never even learned how to drive or been interested in cars in general...
I assume their target grouping just isn't fine grained enough.