Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome

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Post by URfejk » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:11 PM UTC

Google finally revealed how much personal data they collect in Chrome
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#2

Post by sarcasmatwork » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:28 PM UTC

Good find here!

Using Brave + Duck duck go.

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Post by Grazester » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:32 PM UTC

sarcasmatwork wrote: post #2

Good find here! Using Brave + Duck duck go.

Why Brave??

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Post by viklove » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:33 PM UTC

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

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Post by sarcasmatwork » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:34 PM UTC

Grazester wrote: post #3

sarcasmatwork wrote: post #2

Good find here! Using Brave + Duck duck go.

Why Brave??

It's better than Chrome and FF imho. Lacks the tracking BS from Chrome, and FF has gone downhill..

Any reasons not too?

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Post by encryptluks2 » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:35 PM UTC

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.

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Post by encryptluks2 » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:36 PM UTC

sarcasmatwork wrote: post #5

Grazester wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Brave??

It's better than Chrome and FF imho. Lacks the tracking BS from Chrome, and FF has gone downhill.. Any reasons not too?

Brave uses Chromium.

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Post by ancarda » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

sarcasmatwork wrote: post #5

Grazester wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why Brave??

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.

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Post by xiphias2 » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:39 PM UTC

I don't understand why Location (and other data) is 5 times for the Google app for example. Can somebody explain the differences?

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Post by ravenstine » Tue, Mar 16, 2021, 4:40 PM UTC

encryptluks2 wrote: post #7

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?

Brave uses Chromium.

What's wrong with Chromium? I don't think Google's tracking specifically has anything to do with Chromium. Chromium !== Chrome