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https://www.eff.org/press/releases/google-deceptively-tracks-students-internet-browsing-eff-says-complaint-federal-trade https://www.eff.org/press/releases/goog

• VLM 10y ago
  The headline sounds incredibly ominous and spooky, the reality is Chrome sync isn't disabled domain wide by default so the paranoids are flipping out. Its likely disabling chrome sync is going to lead to a lot of annoying headaches, "how come my bookmarks don't sync anymore"
• notatoad 10y ago
  I'm a big fan of the EFF, but for every good thing they do they seem to follow it up with some baseless paranoia. Nowhere in that article do they actually back up their claim that google "data-mines" student's browsing history. Chrome sync is enabled by default, which sends browsing history through google servers. Google says they don't use that data for advertising purposes. The EFF's position here seems to be that it is literally impossible for the data to exist on Google's servers without it being used for advertising purposes.
  • dTal 10y ago
    data mined != data mined "for advertising purposes". Google is always very careful to specify the latter when issuing its suspiciously specific denials. The EFF, in turn, specifically calls them out on this: https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy/faq#faq-What-data-does-Google-collect-about-students https://www.eff.org/issues/student-privacy/faq#faq-What-data...?