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Pretty bad look for google not reporting a security incident, especially one related to personal information. Google hasn’t had a good track record recently and
by aeleos 8y ago
Pretty bad look for google not reporting a security incident, especially one related to personal information. Google hasn’t had a good track record recently and this seems to be showing that google has really changed for the worse. If google is willing to cover up a social media breach, what happens when my email data is breached?
I don’t know if I can trust google with my data anymore, or anyone for that matter. As much as my online data is tied to google, it might be time to remove them as painful as it might be. Anyone else done this or have any recommendations about getting away from gmail / chrome? I have used chrome and google/gmail for a long time. I have looked into Firefox previously and the only thing stopping me is the lack of multiple profiles with each having its own window, running at the same time. I usually have one personal profile, one for school and one for work and I would like to keep that setup.
- eridius 8y agoFirefox has something called multi-account containers (this is technically an extension but it's developed by Mozilla) that lets you basically have profiles but on a per-tab basis instead of a per-window basis. It color-codes the tabs to let you know which container it's running in, and you can set it up to always open a given site in a particular container if you want. Here's the help page if you want more info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
- aeleos 8y agoThanks, I have heard about this before when it was released but never used it. It seems like it has gotten a lot better.
- pmontra 8y agoI use it all the time for the main websites (Google, FB, Amazon, banks, etc). It's also useful to access the same site with multiple accounts from the same browser in development.
- mercer 8y agoThe one feature that would probably make me switch to Firefox again with no hesitation is if these multi-account containers can also have different plugins active/inactive. Without it, it's still cool but not quite as useful for me.
- ma2rten 8y agoQuoting the top comment from the other discussion, which I think hits the nail on it's head: Company finds a security vulnerability caused by a bug. Logs show that it has never been used by anyone. It patches the vulnerability. Should the company announce it publicly? PS: Keeping in mind that this is part of the Murdoch vs. Google war going on for about 10 years: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18169083