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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.
All any investigation on me would find is I can't for the life of me remember the order of in_array and google it way more often than I should.
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All any investigation on me would find is I can't for the life of me remember the order of in_array and google it way more often than I should.
it's cool that your life is perfect and free of danger. consider that you are an outlier
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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.
I agree "harmless" is absolutely the wrong word. I also think that data that might be harmful to a user because it could record them breaking a law should be thought of differently than data that could be harmful when used maliciously by a third party. Even allowing for the often oppressive and unfair application of the law, data that is harmful to the user when sent to the authorities should be considered differentl…
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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
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.
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No, that's a setting in your Google account and not in the browser. https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/3118687?hl=en
How do we know if turning off that setting actually does stop location tracking, considering what we know about Google's past history? https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/aug/13/google-lo...
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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.
All any investigation on me would find is I can't for the life of me remember the order of in_array and google it way more often than I should.
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It's better than Chrome and FF imho. Lacks the tracking BS from Chrome, and FF has gone downhill.. Any reasons not too?
Why not use a Firefox fork like Waterfox? That fixes a number of the complaints people have with Firefox while not pushing us towards a browser engine monopoly - which you do by using a Chromium based browser. Besides, the Basic Attention Token crap in Brave is kinda shady.
I've only been using Brave for the last ~2months.
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Maybe cos it's a laggy as hell?
It changed recently, it's quite amazing tbh, I'm back on FF however weird it sounds !
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3586259/whats-in-the-l...