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Citation needed. Google Analytcs and ads are so widely that most of your browsing will be tracked regardless of browser, even regardless of your search engine
by teleproto 9y ago
Citation needed.
Google Analytcs and ads are so widely that most of your browsing will be tracked regardless of browser, even regardless of your search engine (but the search engine is also quite major since they can track what you were trying to search for before jumping into the web).
But there's also a privacy policy explaining what chrome actually sends:
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/ https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/
- freehunter 9y ago>Citation needed. A company known for tracking the ever-loving shit out of everyone across the Internet distributes a best-in-class web browser absolutely for free. If that's not enough, I really hope you're able to hold on to that innocence as you start using the Internet more and more in the future.
- jorvi 9y agoI hope he doesn't. The biggest problem for privacy is the completely ingorant knowledge/attitude the vast amount of people has towards it.
- fasdf33 9y agoTheir point is that Chrome isn't sending all the data and their privacy policy for CHROME points this out. This isn't difficult to test: sandbox default chrome in a VM and see what happens. But they don't need to because of your point. uMatrix makes it plenty clear all your bits are belong to Google.
- JamesFM 9y agoSorry to go off on you because this is a larger issue then your comment but seriously, can we hold this discussion to a higher standard? Prove to me that Google is tracking me through Chrome. Link me to an article with proof of collection. Most of us our developers here, surely we can apply some more rigor to this conversation then “we know Google is doing this because it’s Google”.
- ryanpollock 9y agojust sign into Chrome, and visit myactivity.google.com you'll see your browsing history, which unless you have a preference turned off deep within settings, Google may then use to target advertising.
- freehunter 9y agoThere are an awful lot of green user names lately shutting down conversations using things like "citation needed" or "prove it" on subjects where it's completely inconsequential or the conclusion is obvious. Everyone can easily see how old your account is and the devs of HN made it that way on purpose. Apologies if anyone here isn't willing to bend over backwards for the demands of an account that wasn't even created the last time I filled up my car's gas tank. Google made a name for themselves giving away very expensive products for free because it furthered their tracking and advertising network. It's not only safe to assume Chrome is the same way, it's dangerous to think otherwise. Google paid $3b for DoubleClick 10 years ago, that wasn't wasted money.
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- Dylan16807 9y agoIs my account old enough for you? Sure, it "furthers their tracking and advertising network". But do they track you through chrome, as asked?
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoChromium has been found to phone home on a regular basis. The data (or metadata) that is sent back is most likely beneficial for Google. I have Google Analytics on my startup's SPA when it can't even be crawled by Google due to the framework we use. The only logical explanation is that Chrome sends data back on the sites you visit.
- Karunamon 9y ago
- yuhong 9y agoIt is worth mentioning Chromium is open source too.
- Sylos 9y agoAnd known to contain questionable things. https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
- yuhong 9y agoThe point is how it compares to Firefox though.
- yjftsjthsd-h 9y agoAnd the answer, particularly in light of the above link, is that compared to Firefox it falls utterly short.
- skinnymuch 9y agoThe github repo shows it compares poorly to Firefox for privacy.