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Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

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Post by zlotnydiev »

dang wrote: post #409
zlotnydiev wrote: post #342

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Why would they repeat the Google+ linked accounts nightmare though? I never wanted a fucking chrome account, and linking my business and private accounts is the stupidest thing you idiots could have done. I never wanted my youtube account tied to my business email.

> the stupidest thing you idiots could have done Would you please read the site guidelines and follow them when commenting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Those guidelines were followed. Given the chance I would say that to their faces.

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Post by ntp85 »

visarga wrote: post #447
colordrops wrote: post #321

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It's almost a certainty that they will continue down the slippery slope and start syncing data automatically in a future update. That sort of change has happened several times, so there is precedent.

But can't you protect your synced data with a passphrase?

According to the Chrome privacy policy the synced data is inaccessible to Google if it is encrypted with a passphrase, even though this encryption seems to be weak: https://palant.de/2018/03/13/can-chrome-sync-or-firefox-sync...

Re: Am I logged in or not? GDPR case study on the example of Chrome browser change

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Post by dang »

zlotnydiev wrote: post #501
dang wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the stupidest thing you idiots could have done Would you please read the site guidelines and follow them when commenting here? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Those guidelines were followed. Given the chance I would say that to their faces.

Between this and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18072106 it seems clear that you don't want to use HN as intended, so I've banned this account.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.

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Post by ionised »

rifung wrote: post #492
propogandist wrote: post #480

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It seems he's employed by Google

What does that have to do with my opinion about not being concerned about my Facebook use..?

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

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Post by explainplease »

eksemplar wrote: post #429
explainplease wrote: post #365

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I wish Mozilla would give some kind of guarantee that they won't drop the feature, otherwise I don't feel like investing time into building a workflow around it is worthwhile. And it's sad that this is even an issue.

We automated a process with RPA for a piece of software that was being replaced 6 months later. You could look at it as silly, but in those 6 months it saved around 700 work hours after it had paid for its dev time.

Sure, that makes sense for your business, because it saved money. For me, personally, I don't want spend time getting used to software that is likely to be taken away from me (i.e. forced obsolescence). That is a very frustrating experience. I'd rather use and build on software that I know is going to remain usable for a long time.

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Post by joelx »

tedivm wrote: post #3

I 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…

I believe there is a purposeful propaganda war being directed against Google and Facebook here on HN and elsewhere in the media. I am not sure who is behind it, but my best guess would be Russia or China as they would have interest in this. Most of these posts against them are very flimsy, but they get huge upvotes.

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Post by rifung »

ionised wrote: post #504
rifung wrote: post #492

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What does that have to do with my opinion about not being concerned about my Facebook use..?

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

I started using FB well before I joined Google =]
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