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Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by encryptluks2 »

ocdtrekkie wrote: post #12
encryptluks2 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chromium is open source and Firefox collects quite a bit of data by default as well.

Chromium is open source, but almost nobody uses it. Almost everyone uses either of the proprietary forks, Chrome and Edge.

Not if you use Linux, and Chromium is also in the Chocolatey repo and Homebrew.

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by qzx_pierri »

woofster wrote: post #14
viklove wrote: post #4

Why would you use a proprietary browser when Firefox is around?

Maybe cos it's a laggy as hell?

Firefox has been faster than Chrome for months now. I switched over to it on Windows and I'm enjoying myself so far. It's not for everyone though, so I get your apprehension.

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Post by corytheboyd »

sys_64738 wrote: post #19

Is Google 'Do No Evil' dead?

Hasn’t quite a lot of time passed since they gave up on that motto? I’m not upset about the content of the “article”, I hope it wasn’t a secret to anyone that Google, the owner of the worlds largest web advertising platform, has been collecting data from users this whole time.

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by sp332 »

tinus_hn wrote: post #16
ricardbejarano wrote: post #11

Controversial opinion: Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up: - Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS) - Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use". Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.

If you chose to allow Chrome to know your location, so it can show you on the map, do you consent to have your location tracked continuously and associated with your Google account?

No, that's a setting in your Google account and not in the browser. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by ravenstine »

freedom42 wrote: post #15
ravenstine wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's wrong with Chromium? I don't think Google's tracking specifically has anything to do with Chromium. Chromium !== Chrome

Because the direction Chromium is heading is in large part controlled by Google, more than Firefox. Also Chromium still has Google bits, otherwise ungoogled-chromium won't exist right?

I see. I generally agree with that, which is one reason why I'm a Firefox user, but I'm not totally sure I buy it as a reason not to use Brave. It's a fair viewpoint, though. I could see it being a reason for being against Brave if the Google-ness of Chromium is able to make Brave less private.

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Post by URfejk »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #21
ocdtrekkie wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chromium is open source, but almost nobody uses it. Almost everyone uses either of the proprietary forks, Chrome and Edge.

Not if you use Linux, and Chromium is also in the Chocolatey repo and Homebrew.

And on Android you can use Ungoogled Chromium.

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by Grazester »

NtGuy25 wrote: post #17
Grazester wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Brave??

It's produced by a "Reputable" company and has a good update process. I can TRUST my software updates from brave. "Ungoogled Chromium", while FOSS, have no good update method, and since i'm not going to build it myself, I don't have the same level of trust that something malicious hasn't been implanted. Brave provides similar features to ungoogled chromium and I don't have to support Mozilla or Google and their pract…

There is a a lot of talk here about "Trust", that's somethings I cannot attribute to Brave. I am sorry.

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by zepto »

ricardbejarano wrote: post #11

Controversial opinion: Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up: - Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS) - Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use". Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.

Seems hard to make the argument to make that browsing history is harmless, given how often it is used in police investigations and court cases.

Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by duxup »

ricardbejarano wrote: post #11

Controversial opinion: Half the data Chrome collects is harmless, and the other half is up to the user to give up: - Location data: you are asked and must approve for Chrome to use (at least on macOS) - Financial data: you must enter it manually and click "save for future use". Could it be better? Sure! But I think DDG is exaggerating here. We're not _that_ bad.

Sometimes I worry that after all the concerns about data collection, and even if most people would say they don't want to give up that data in a survey. But:

When presented with a screen that's hiding a silly cat picture they would just instinctively would click "I agree" 99 times out of 100, and at that moment, and maybe most, they really don't care...

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