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If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off "Allow Chrome sign-in". Then go to Gmail and sign i
by petilon 8y ago
If you want to see an example of the devious means now employed by Google, open Chrome settings and turn off "Allow Chrome sign-in". Then go to Gmail and sign in. You are now signed into Chrome, regardless of the setting. By signing into Gmail you are sharing your identity with the browser itself.
Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge can't arrive soon enough.
- Iolaum 8y agoWhy not try Firefox today?
- sneakernets 8y agoThat sounds like a bug, but knowing Google, it's a "bug".
- chooseaname 8y ago> Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge can't arrive soon enough. What about Firefox?
- whatshisface 8y agoWhen Firefox goes Chromium-based, swarms of locusts will erupt from the ground, the moon will turn red as mars, and apparitions of RMS will be seen wandering the streets, telling people "I told you so."
- reitanqild 8y agoI think gp didn't mean wait for Firefox to use Chromium rather: why not use Firefox already? Come for the better browser, get spyware free as a bonus ;-)
- JadeNB 8y ago> Come for the better browser, get spyware free as a bonus ;-) Unless I misinterpret you, that really needs a hyphen.
- reitanqild 8y agoThat is a really good point :-) Yes, there should have been a hyphen there.
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- Johnny555 8y agoThe best thing about firefox is the containers - so I can easily have different cookie spaces for different tasks, I only use my Gmail container for Gmail, so my general web browsing isn't attached to my Gmail profile.
- NeutronStar 8y agoI have created one for facebook so everything facebook related gets sent into oblivion.
- entropicdrifter 8y agoThis is why I use Brave on mobile and Firefox on desktop
- dscpls 8y agoWhy not firefox on mobile? Been using it for months and about as hapoy with it as firefox on desktop
- sturgill 8y agoI wanted to switch back to Firefox, but it seems to consume every resource on my machine. I’m currently using Safari and miss FF of old (I used FF exclusively from 2005-2013; switched to Chrome; and just can’t seem to like FF again).
- mulmen 8y agoIt still blows my mind that any technologically literate person would use Chrome as their primary browser in 2019. Or 2018, or really ever. The incentives for Google are perverse, this is really simple reasoning. Google will continue their MS-esque Embrace-Extend-Extinguish march until only Chrome is left. That people who should know better willingly enable this disaster terrifies me.
- distant_hat 8y agoMy company is a Google shop, we use Google docs for collaboration, Gmail, and Google Calendar, and Google Hangouts, and Meet and all that. All of this works best in Chrome. On Safari you get huge RAM bloat necessitating killing the browser every few days, same with Firefox, some things like video meets don't work at all.
- mulmen 8y agoSounds exactly like IE6 in “Microsoft shops”.
- abc_lisper 8y agoActually, that is horrifying. That their webapps are usable only through their browser. Google, I guess, achieved what Microsoft couldn't
- CaptainZapp 8y agoAfter that last little cookie shitty in combination with their auto-sign in feature, which Google pulled off recently I won't touch Chrome with a 10foot pole and will not let it near any computer, which I control.
- swebs 8y ago>Microsoft's Chromium-based Edge can't arrive soon enough. Eww, so you can have your data harvested by an even more evil and scummy company? Why not just use Ungoogled-Chromium or Firefox today? Hell, even Safari would be better.
- setquk 8y agoYes MSFT are cancer on a telemetry perspective. I signed up for “new outlook web access” today and it was hammering the shit out of their servers with telemetry hits. Ublock Origin turned these into console errors. They are simply the worst.
- petilon 8y agoTelemetry is for software developers to learn how you are using their product. This isn't as bad as what Google is doing. Google is interested in everything you are doing, and then they sell that harvested information to advertisers. Microsoft doesn't sell any of your info to third parties. That's not the purpose of telemetry.
- setquk 8y agoI don’t care about them selling it. I care about them having it to start with.
- petilon 8y ago>>I care about them having it to start with. Having what? Data regarding what features of their product customers are utilizing and what features are not being used? If you were a software developer would you not want to have that kind of data? Nothing nefarious about this.
- setquk 8y agoThe problem comes is that you are not in control of the scope of the data or the processing of it. Just because now is ok, it doesn’t mean tomorrow will be and once data is leaked unintentionally (look at their disastrous QA at the moment) then the data protection liability lands on your feet. If you don’t control the software you use then you are at risk regardless of the proposed purpose or promise. I find this attitude of accepting product surveillance (telemetry is an unfairly nice term) totally negligent.
- shirakawasuna 8y agoThis no longer happens to me on Chromium 71. Maybe it's a Chromium-specific thing?
- manigandham 8y agoDoes this actually happen? Sounds like a bug if so, and not intended behavior if the setting is off. The reasoning behind why that happens makes sense considering the 99.99% non-technical users who do not understand why Chrome is signed in vs Gmail, or vice versa.
- m463 8y agoI think a better example would be: Try to make an appointment on the california dmv website without signing into google.
- sys_64738 8y agocough Vivaldi cough