I wonder if this is intended to make only few companies to have control over users' data. Does anyone have an opinion about this?
You can get rough data about chrome users. Want better resolution? You gotta pay.
Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses
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#12It’s nice that a large chunk of web traffic (this plus safari’s private relay) can obfuscate so much traffic off of telcos who have been notorious in the past for collecting and selling traffic data. Guess they have to limit their businesses to just selling internet service like they’ve pretended to only do all along!
I now only wish Apple would allow private relay for third party apps, and allow the ability to switch it on/off for specific apps so that unsavory ones (like temu) can collect even less info on users
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#13> Furthermore, if one of Google's proxy servers is compromised, the threat actor can see and manipulate the traffic going through it.
Wait what? They are planning to proxy the cleartext, not https?
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#14I wonder if this is intended to make only few companies to have control over users' data. Does anyone have an opinion about this?
Yeah, that’s what I think. The platform owners (Apple, Google) are racing to make sure they have exclusive access to user tracking.
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#15Let's imagine this as a building block for a bigger product.
A web server may be interested to verify that a request comes out of a Google proxy server. Would it ever make sense to treat differently the requests that come from the Google servers? Or allow only them?
If a publisher could verify that a user is using Chrome, is a user more valuable because tracking them is more robust? Another reason, if those servers recognize and stop the DDoS attacks, it can be cheaper to allow only them than pay for Cloudflare.
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#16So basically Google is sending traffic through servers that will give them a slightly less precise idea of your location. Count me out. I'm staying away from Google.
I think the idea is, currently a website owner can get a fairly good idea where you are. What google wants to do is change things so google knows exactly who you are and visited that website and what you looked at and searched for. And the website owners can get that if they pay google. And if they don't they have no idea who or where you are.
Yeah no thanks.
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#17Hey FTC.....Antitrust is needed now. Break up Google....like ffs
Re: Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses
#18Let's imagine this as a building block for a bigger product. A web server may be interested to verify that a request comes out of a Google proxy server. Would it ever make sense to treat differently the requests that come from the Google servers? Or allow only them? If a publisher could verify that a user is using Chrome, is a user more valuable because tracking them is more robust? Another reason, if those servers r…
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#19I don't trust Google to do the right thing here.
Re: Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses
#20Let's imagine this as a building block for a bigger product. A web server may be interested to verify that a request comes out of a Google proxy server. Would it ever make sense to treat differently the requests that come from the Google servers? Or allow only them? If a publisher could verify that a user is using Chrome, is a user more valuable because tracking them is more robust? Another reason, if those servers r…
It makes it easier for ISPs and site operators to impose various Google Taxes.