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

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Post by Wohlf »

whoopdedo wrote: post #90

What part of those vague descriptions covers Google's practice of reading messages sent to a GMail address that are purchase receipts and adding it to a list of places you've shopped at?

That's not a function of Chrome, that's a function of Gmail.

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

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Post by fsflover »

ancarda wrote: post #8
sarcasmatwork wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> Waterfox

Or IceCat. Or, even better, original Firefox.

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

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Post by SquareWheel »

sp332 wrote: post #28
sys_64738 wrote: post #19

Is Google 'Do No Evil' dead?

Yes, officially almost three years ago. https://gizmodo.com/google-removes-nearly-all-mentions-of-do...

"Removes nearly all mention..."

AKA: they moved the line from the opening statement to the closing statement.

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

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Post by freedom42 »

zepto wrote: post #92
gowld wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Here is something from 2021.

"Police confirms that Disha was arrested after Google shared details."

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/disha-ravi-a...

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

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Post by freedom42 »

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.

Recently, Google shared data about Google Docs which led to an unnecessary arrest.

"Police confirms that Disha was arrested after Google shared details."

https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/disha-ravi-a...

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

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Post by tomcooks »

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.

Hot take: why the duck would you need all that info? Stick to the ducking results and show clearly marked ducking sponsored results based on search keyword, not the shadow avatar of me you're creating one "harmless" bs at a time.

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

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Post by dblohm7 »

encryptluks2 wrote: post #6
viklove wrote: post #4

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

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

(Mozilla employee) Yeah, but how much of what Firefox collects is PII? (And no, Telemetry is not PII)

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

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Post by specialist »

danShumway wrote: post #79
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.

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…

> location data to be saved or used during a web search

Does location data even help with relevance?

During road trips in 2018, location relevant results were turrible. Too many times I'd have to manually add my current location. eg "dog parks albuquerque nm" Sorry, no, I don't care about Dog Park Pub and Office Supplies in Duluth MN. Absolutely enraging.

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