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Yes, Firefox could do better, but at least Sync there was designed with privacy in mind - Chrome Sync wasn't, and even if you set a passphrase it will only encr
by palant 8y ago
Yes, Firefox could do better, but at least Sync there was designed with privacy in mind - Chrome Sync wasn't, and even if you set a passphrase it will only encrypt passwords and none of the other data such as your browsing history.
Either way, Chrome exists to give Google's web services an advantage, that's the only reason. I wrote about that seven years ago: https://adblockplus.org/blog/google-chrome-and-pre-installed-web-apps https://adblockplus.org/blog/google-chrome-and-pre-installed...
- r2dof 8y ago>even if you set a passphrase it will only encrypt passwords and none of the other data such as your browsing history. This[1] seems to imply otherwise. [1]:https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139#passphrase https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139#passphrase
- palant 8y agoYes, it does. I just tried this, when I set a passphrase everything shows up as encrypted in the Google Dashboard. So maybe things changed since I wrote this, or maybe I misunderstood it initially. Either way, the default is not having a passphrase, and the passphrase setting is buried pretty deep, so most people won't set it. What's worse, you cannot really avoid an initial unencrypted sync before you can set up a passphrase. The point still stands, this isn't a system designed for privacy.