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Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
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Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
it's cool that your life is perfect and free of danger. consider that you are an outlier
Most people are not at risk for being unjustly harmed by law enforcement due to their online data. The people that are at risk are outliers, and still worthy of concern.
> Most people are not at risk for being unjustly harmed by law enforcement due to their online data.
This isn’t true. The risk is currently low of actually being targeted but that doesn’t mean people are not at risk.
Also law enforcement is not the only problem by a long shot. Civil suits, family court, etc, all routinely use browsing history data.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#93Is there more context for this? I'm seeing an infographic sourced to "Apple App Store as of March 2021," but I don't own an iPhone so I don't know where this information comes from. Are these boxes permissions declared by the app, data collection as detected by some heuristic at Apple, or what?
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
What a terrible article. Look at what the last paragraph says despite the title: The updated version of Google’s code of conduct still retains one reference to the company’s unofficial motto—the final line of the document is still: “And remember… don’t be evil, and if you see something that you think isn’t right – speak up!”
I feel terribly misled—for several years now, I thought they removed "don't be evil" entirely (apparently, courtesy of overhyped news headlines and whatnot). Obviously it doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things (I don't suddenly trust Google a whole lot more), but it feels bad to have both believed and passed on misinformation. (And, yeah, it's also my fault for not having checked primary sources at the tim…
I just searched around and picked one near the top of the results. Lots of similar reporting at the time.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
The interesting thing is the failure mode if you don't agree to continuous tracking. Google uses the last place it was allowed to track you to instead of allowing the user to specifically enable a location update for "near me" queries to maps or the assistant. It may not be meant as one but it feels like a dark pattern, particularly when you can tap an icon to update your position in maps but any "near me" requests s…
It definitely is. You can't even set a "home" or "work" location without enabling continuous tracking.
Yes, you can. I have location history disabled but I can route to home or work in Google Maps. Unless I am missing something.
Disc: Googler.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#96Why would you use a proprietary browser when Firefox is around?
Because Chrome syncs to my Google account so the large collection of devices I browse on have shared history, defaults, and bookmarks.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#97Earlier quoted context omitted.
It definitely is. You can't even set a "home" or "work" location without enabling continuous tracking.
Yes, you can. I have location history disabled but I can route to home or work in Google Maps. Unless I am missing something. Disc: Googler.
Did this change recently? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18070183
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I think Google recently took out the syncing capability from Chromium. Things like that.
Edit: Also the manifest v3 thingy which made Ublock Origin operation restricted, also I think it prevented CNAME uncloaking. Idk whether Google went ahead with manifest v3 though.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#99Controversial 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.
This is kind of deceptive. Approving location data to be saved or used during a web search is not the same thing as approving location data to be used for advertising and product personalization. Same with contact information, same with browser history, same with search history and unique IDs. Also, none of that data is harmless. > I think DDG is exaggerating here Google shouldn't be basing advertising off of individ…
It turns out, solving the problem of being an assistant device approaches the "AI complete" boundary, and the set of data interconnections needed approaches "arbitrary." Hence, the interpretation that the data should be usable as Google sees fit.
Re: Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
#100Controversial 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?
The linked image says "coarse location" for Chrome/Analytics.
So this is not your GPS data but most likely IP based city/metro.
Also it says "may" everywhere. AFAIK DDG may be doing all of those things too.
From a technical POV this looks such a huge FUD that it's sad.