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Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?
Here's the screenshot[0] of the survey widget Google just sent me to. Did anyone else here just get a "Privacy Checkup" notification in Chrome for something like this? I think it happened when I opened a new tab.
I was a bit upset to find out that Google ignored my request to turn off tracking my location, which I remember disabling a few weeks ago. I don't recall ever turning these settings on.
In the lower right corner, they asked me a bunch of questions about how I think they are handling my privacy.
[0] https://imgur.com/Esgtwlp
- lprd 8y agoHmm, I haven't seen this pop up yet. Did you navigate to gmail or some other google service to get this to show up?
- anonytrary 8y agoIt was either triggered right when I opened a new tab or right after I opened a new tab and did a (Google) search in the URL bar. This[0] is what the popup looks like. [0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dR9upJLiSgQ/Wv2K8LA3b-I/AAAAAAAABj8/mxeg3VgUIPYJqawVy2AQGBAhT0O_slYygCLcBGAs/s1600/Take_Your_Privacy_Checkup.JPG https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dR9upJLiSgQ/Wv2K8LA3b-I/A...
- code_duck 8y agoI saw this recently but don’t recall the context.
- throwaway8879 8y agoI get it everytime I log into Google through a VPN.
- Rafuino 8y agoI got it b/c I think I'm on a VPN and had to use Chrome (which I rarely do) when a page I needed wouldn't load properly on my preferred browser. I assume it's a way for Chrome to get you to log in, as I wasn't logged in to Chrome at the time.
- operatorequals 8y agoI'm always surprised with how much people get surprised about google spying on them. Or about google ignoring privacy options in platforms they own (chrome, android).
- anonytrary 8y agoThe only thing that surprised me was when I learned that Google was tracking my location, given that I explicitly disabled that a few weeks ago.
- dawnerd 8y agoGet it every now and then. I don’t see an alarm here, they could be saying nothing at all and keeping you completely in the dark.
- salawat 8y ago... We don't really care what you say or do because we're going to collect the data anyway. But hey, at least we're honest! And you don't see reason for alarm? What exactly qualifies as reason for alarm for you out of curiosity?
- floatingatoll 8y agoI remember getting this every few months for a year or two.
- reed266 8y agoNo did
- toomuchtodo 8y agoOddly enough, it happened when I was using Chrome to download Firefox to replace Chrome.