Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies

Post by int_19h » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:37 PM UTC

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The action to resolve all of those is to use an AOSP ROM and do not sign into Google. Thats it. The hard part is de-coupling yourself from Google services, if you rely on them. That may be solved via self-hosted services. See: https://github.com/Kickball/awesome-selfhosted

This is one thing that I genuinely have never understood: if it's this challenging (and effectively impossible for non tech savvy users) to make android devices safe / private / secure and also feature-complete - why, oh why are so many people still using them? This is not me fanboying Apple, it's just sort of mind boggling to me. This is from someone who used a nexus 6p for two years, and some older stuff before tha…

Post by ryandrake » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:39 PM UTC

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This is kind of FUD. I’ve been running my own mail server for over a year now, and my E-mails don’t magically disappear into some blacklist. Do you have to be careful when configuring your server? Yes. Can you get on a blacklist erroneously? Yes. Does not going with a hosted solution mean you cannot participate in E-mail? No way. I don’t know where this myth comes from that running your own mail infra means your mail…

As someone who's had his entirely legitimate, wholly none-spamming email accounts blacklisted (numerous times) because he used the same shared server as someone less than saintly, I can attest that this is actually a genuine and existant concern. Sure, it's 'easy' to get around, by throwing more money and complexity at the problem, but it isn't some made up tale.

Post by laumars » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:44 PM UTC

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> Microsoft already went through this engineering/product growth to bizdev/marketing control to stagnation and is already in the return to engineering/product first phase. Microsoft were always a marketing first company. Even in the early days they sold BASIC and DOS before they'd even written a line of code. And Windows certainly didn't become the dominant desktop OS through being the best at engineering (in the 80s…

> Even in the early days they sold BASIC and DOS before they'd even written a line of code Microsoft didn't create DOS

Post by irrational » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:49 PM UTC

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I assume this is the engineering at work. "Okay, users are confused by how they're logged into Google but not Chrome, or Chrome but not Google - let's make them one and the same". "Okay, but once you're logged into Chrome now, every post we check to see if we have the Google cookies to keep that sync... so that means when you clear the cookies the Google ones will automagically reappear" "Ugh, let's just notify the u…

Everybody at Google, for anything they do, should ask a simple question on any proposal ... how does this impact user privacy for those that care? Given Google's size and power it's irresponsible for them to not do so. And given that there are really smart people working for Google, including a whole department working on analyzing the threats and preserving user privacy, I won't believe for a second that nobody thou…

Post by int_19h » Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 5:50 PM UTC

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Can I import my Chrome passwords into FF?

I really recommend switching to a password manager - it's also easier to access the passwords from other devices. For example I can use the same passwords on Firefox desktop and on Safari - iPhone (including auto-fill on iOS 12). I have good experience with 1Password (subscription paid).