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Google indeed doesn't sell info to other people. (It does collect it though.)
Is there a definitive list anywhere of what Chrome collects and where it goes? There have been rumours forever, but I'm interested in verifiable facts.
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Google indeed doesn't sell info to other people. (It does collect it though.)
It collects it for the purpose of building a better advertising profile of you- so it can make more money from ads. It’s still using my data about me and making money off of it.
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I realize this is bad, but what happens to the user data exactly? I mean can someone here paint the bleakest, most dystopian possible use or future?
A lot of people focus on how this information is used by advertisers, which can be a problem, but in my opinion the bigger issue is how data brokers are starting to act like completely unregulated and sometimes highly inaccurate credit reports.
Dangit - I just installed it yesterday to block Twitter's annoying timeline additions ("So-and-so liked such-and-such") which don't honor the account's word filter/blacklist. Any alternatives out there that are better?
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If you dont want the heavy handed solution that NoScript provides, i would suggest "uBlock Matrix".
There are two, similar, though different, extensions. uBlock origin is a dedicated, quite-good, low-fuss, ad blocker. uMatrix is a much more general, very powerful, though somewhat fussy, general Web capabilities manager. If you don't mind fiddling with sites periodically, it's very strongly recommended, but for user populations who don't do this or grasp technology poorly, it will require some fairly close managing,…
I would never have imagined installing it for non-technical users, but one was interested in giving it a try and had no problem. They even said they really liked learning how the web worked (uMatrix shows a grid (the matrix) of hosts and functionality, such as CSS, images, scripts, media, etc.). So I gave it to another non-technical user, and they also like it.
Both have been surprised to see the number of domains that contribute to one webpage (most users assume it's all from the domain they typed into the URL field), and how often Facebook, Twitter, Google Analytics, and other tracking domains show up in that matrix.
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Is there a definitive list anywhere of what Chrome collects and where it goes? There have been rumours forever, but I'm interested in verifiable facts.
If you're logged in, which Chrome strongly encourages, it's your entire browsing history. See the URL above.