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So, if you were thinking about using that particular app to read some feed containing something relatively private, guess what, they're reading it too. Which one? No names were named at any point in this post.
Searching for "all articles are available offline and without an internet connection" (with the quotes) in your favorite search engine might help.
There is approximately zero point in calling out the bad behaviour of anonymous applications.
If you think more "point" than that is necessary, you are deeply confused about a great many things.
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Except Chrome indeed sends up all URLs you browse, at least by default/outside of incognito mode.
Are you talking about encrypted sync data or something else?
At least Google is fairly transparent about it, if you look for it. And I'd trust them way more than a tiny company making a "dime a dozen" app.
[1]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13730681?hl=en#zipp...
[2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13844634?hl=en&ref_...
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Why not name names? Who are you trying to protect, and why do they need protection from their own misdeeds, and why don't their users and everyone else deserve to know? They don't respect people's privacy, but deserve to have their own corporate privacy respected for some reason?
It's possible that it's more of a personal ethic and a view towards their own actions (something like, "I don't disparage others") rather than that they view this company as deserving protection.
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Because I don't have all the facts and I can't put the genie back in the bottle. I think there needs to be a balance between "if you really want to research this alleged invasion of privacy then you should look here" and "that guy is bad, everybody go harass him". I haven't seen the logs and I haven't read the company's website in detail, so I'm not going to point the finger at someone for what could be a misundersta…
> Because I don't have all the facts and I can't put the genie back in the bottle. This is an amazing way to express an extremely important concept, one that unfortunately doesn't have enough representation on the internet. Kudos.
I am often told What A Bad Boy I Am, because I won't tell.
I cry myself to sleep over it, every night.
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Are you talking about encrypted sync data or something else?
Both autosuggest[1] and Safe Browsing[2] sends URLs or "portion of" URLs home to Google. At least Google is fairly transparent about it, if you look for it. And I'd trust them way more than a tiny company making a "dime a dozen" app. [1]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13730681?hl=en#zipp... [2]: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/13844634?hl=en&ref_...
Yeah autosuggest is there and it has a toggle. But that's still far from every URL you browse.
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The issue is that the company can track what you are reading.
Unless there's an explicit reason not to, you should indeed assume that men in the middle will look at what you pass by them. Then you have to decide for yourself if you're OK with that or not. I know Microsoft looks at my files when I put them on my OneDrive. I take that into account when I decide what to put there. I know Google reads my mail when Thunderbird sends it through their SMTP servers. I know it'll be rea…
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Unless there's an explicit reason not to, you should indeed assume that men in the middle will look at what you pass by them. Then you have to decide for yourself if you're OK with that or not. I know Microsoft looks at my files when I put them on my OneDrive. I take that into account when I decide what to put there. I know Google reads my mail when Thunderbird sends it through their SMTP servers. I know it'll be rea…
She didn't think there would be anyone in the middle! She expected the app to access the URL, and it did, but she didn't expect it to also send a copy to its creators. Like, what if you discovered that each time you send an email, Thunderbird also sends the email address you were writing to to a server owned by Mozilla?
Then I wouldn't be surprised.
I haven't read Thunderbirds privacy policy in detail, so for all I know there's a clause about collecting email addresses in there. Could even be for a good reason, spam filtering for example.
And as mentioned I take that into account when writing emails. I do indeed avoid writing certain stuff and avoid sending certain mails due to privacy. For the rest I see it as an acceptable risk/reward tradeoff.
I'm not a tinfoil hat kinda guy, but the innocence is gone when it comes to modern software.
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It's been pretty common (derogatory) slang for "the cloud" for many years in certain circles I am in, so I assume that was the usage hear. The clown emoji is also useful in this regard in SSIDs or strings in programs (breaks all sorts of things that it shouldn't too)
I also like the Glaswegian "my computer is in the Clyde" meme. I always think of the cloud as a tired PC, bobbing around in the water, near Dumbarton.