Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
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Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
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Re: Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
#2So, it's bad because it doesn't sync your history by default? Even if the UI is confusing, the worst case here is thinking that your data is being synced when it's not. It's like the opposite of a privacy problem.
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#3I don't understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what's going on.
I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilities due to how they're using their browser to give their services special functionality others can't get.
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#5Please, Google, fix those mistakes soon, and avoid a PR fiasco.
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#6I think that currently pretty much every service, device and website violates the GDPR.
The GDPR requires consent or some other legitimate reason to store data about a person.
I see dark patterns everywhere. I never give consent. But I get tracked to death everywhere all the time. Even before I touch anything on a website, it plants dozens of cookies on my machine.
But cookies are not even the problem. Fingerprinting is. When I visit a hifi store with my smartphone, next day my Desktop PC will show me nothing but hifi ads. Even though I don't store cookies on any of them.
Additionally, the web turned into an arcade game. The user has to rapid fire click away 'OK', 'I AGREE', 'I CONSENT', 'I UNDESTAND' buttons. He is not giving consent. He is just trying to get through this pile of nonsense to reach the content.
Re: Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
#7does chrome let you choose what to sync? opera does (which is also forked from chromium), and you can encrypt the data with your own pw
Re: Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
#8I don't understand why the Chrome team is picking this hill to die on- their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away as if the people upset about this are just not understanding what's going on. I really expect this change to push a lot of people away from Chrome, and frankly I wouldn't be surprised if it started opening up more antitrust possibilit…
> their team (managers and developers) are all over twitter and reddit trying to explain the privacy violations away
That's literally their jobs as Chrome evangelists. They're just doing what they're told.
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#9So, it's bad because it doesn't sync your history by default? Even if the UI is confusing, the worst case here is thinking that your data is being synced when it's not. It's like the opposite of a privacy problem.
> the worst case here is thinking that your data is being synced when it's not
Confused, what do you mean? To me thinking that my data isn't being synced when it really is sounds much worse...
Re: Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change
#10I think that currently pretty much every service, device and website violates the GDPR. The GDPR requires consent or some other legitimate reason to store data about a person. I see dark patterns everywhere. I never give consent. But I get tracked to death everywhere all the time. Even before I touch anything on a website, it plants dozens of cookies on my machine. But cookies are not even the problem. Fingerprinting…
The differece is that now it is explicitly illegal. I suspect after some grace period the most severe violations will start to get prosecuted and then I expect respectable companies to reconsider their tracking.