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Does anyone have a single shred of evidence that Google is doing any kind of fingerprinting? It's the web. You can see what's happening, follow the code as it

Does anyone have a single shred of evidence that Google is doing any kind of fingerprinting? It's the web. You can see what's happening, follow the code as it runs. Has anyone found a single shred of evidence that big bad hated evil Google is doing any of these casually cast about nasty vicious accusations? Yes Google runs ads, and makes most of its money that way. But it needs to play a clean game & keep the web stable & trustable if that revenue stream is to survive. These conjectures that earning another 10% by setting fire to your house don't make sense. They never have. But it's what our underdog bias makes us want to believe.

funcDropShadow 3y ago
> It's the web. For most people it's Google's web. You can't see anything Chrome is doing if Google doesn't want you to see it.
- jauntywundrkind 3y ago
  Personally this reads like a descent into madness, a conspiratorial minded terror/Fear Uncertainty and Doubt stark-world outlook that actuvely seeks to erode away reality for it's preferred sense of what is. There's just not evidence we really have much to fear here. Yes Chrome is closed source, but it seems to pretty closely resemble Chromium. Yes Chrome is closed source but there are people very good at Ghidra (& others softwares) would be be delighted to find sneaky scary shit happening. These assertions feel baseless. It feels the opposite of the truth. Chrome is perhaps the most observable software development process on the planet. They follow their process, which involves - before any code gets written - writing explainers, bringing Early Design Reviews to W3C TAG, and then posting request-for-position review from everyone else. What software on the planet does more to pace a golden path, has a higher level of visibility, review, and regard than this? https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/ https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/
  - hulitu 3y ago
    > There's just not evidence we really have much to fear here. Famous last words.

funcDropShadow 3y ago

> It's the web. For most people it's Google's web. You can't see anything Chrome is doing if Google doesn't want you to see it.

jauntywundrkind 3y ago
Personally this reads like a descent into madness, a conspiratorial minded terror/Fear Uncertainty and Doubt stark-world outlook that actuvely seeks to erode away reality for it's preferred sense of what is. There's just not evidence we really have much to fear here. Yes Chrome is closed source, but it seems to pretty closely resemble Chromium. Yes Chrome is closed source but there are people very good at Ghidra (& others softwares) would be be delighted to find sneaky scary shit happening. These assertions feel baseless. It feels the opposite of the truth. Chrome is perhaps the most observable software development process on the planet. They follow their process, which involves - before any code gets written - writing explainers, bringing Early Design Reviews to W3C TAG, and then posting request-for-position review from everyone else. What software on the planet does more to pace a golden path, has a higher level of visibility, review, and regard than this? https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/ https://www.chromium.org/blink/launching-features/
- hulitu 3y ago
  > There's just not evidence we really have much to fear here. Famous last words.