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I meant browsing history. I don’t care about my search history. Even though these days I use the paid ChatGPT with the web search tool most of the time. Goog

I meant browsing history. I don’t care about my search history. Even though these days I use the paid ChatGPT with the web search tool most of the time. Google is becoming more useless every month

geor9e 2y ago
Chrome Sync (i.e. saving your history + everything else to the cloud so it syncs to all your devices) is an optional setting. Microsoft Edge has the same thing under another name. Safari does too.
- scarface_74 2y ago
  Google also uses your browsing history to create a profile for advertising https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451?hl=en#:~:text=Go%20to%20My%20Ad%20Center,certain%20sensitive%20ad%20topics%2C%20including: https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451... And Apple provides end to end encryption of browsing history so it can’t decrypt your browsing history https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in-your-browser-backup/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in... > What’s interesting about the Apple decision is that it appears to explicitly separate browsing history and bookmarks, rather than lumping them into a single take-it-or-leave-it package. Apple doesn’t claim to provide any end-to-end encryption guarantees whatsoever for bookmarks: presumably someone who resets your iCloud account password can get those. But your browsing history is protected in a way that even Apple won’t be able to access, in case the FBI show up with a subpoena.
  - geor9e 2y ago
    That's not Chrome's browsing history - that's an ad network, adsense, profiling you, via cookies/ip/digital fingerprinting, across every website that serves it's ads. It's like logging into facebook and saying they can see your browsing history - yes some of it, but it's because they're watching a server they own serve you requests.
    - scarface_74 2y ago
      The entire idea behind “privacy sandbox” is to create a profile of you for advertising based on your browsing history and the profile is created by Chrome - without being logged in and without cookies. https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/ https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/ More specifically the Topics API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API It’s opposed by both Mozilla and Apple and is only supported by Google/Chrome.
      - geor9e 2y ago
        Interesting. So the browser knows your browsing history like every browser does, but it uses it to share some distilled data. Yeah, I definitely don't want that. Looks like I already totally disabled it though, so I'm good I guess. Privacy and security > Ad privacy Ad topics: Generates a list of your interests based on your browsing behavior. Site-suggested ads: Allows advertisers to retarget you based on your interactions. Ad measurement: Enables advertisers to assess ad performance. Toggle each of these settings to "Off" to disable them.
        scarface_74 2y ago
        Yep. And I slightly misspoke. I said it was only supported by Chrome. More accurately, it is supported by Chrome and some Chromium based browsers.

I meant browsing history. I don’t care about my search history. Even though these days I use the paid ChatGPT with the web search tool most of the time. Google is becoming more useless every month

geor9e 2y ago

Chrome Sync (i.e. saving your history + everything else to the cloud so it syncs to all your devices) is an optional setting. Microsoft Edge has the same thing under another name. Safari does too.

scarface_74 2y ago
Google also uses your browsing history to create a profile for advertising https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451?hl=en#:~:text=Go%20to%20My%20Ad%20Center,certain%20sensitive%20ad%20topics%2C%20including: https://support.google.com/My-Ad-Center-Help/answer/12155451... And Apple provides end to end encryption of browsing history so it can’t decrypt your browsing history https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in-your-browser-backup/ https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2021/03/25/whats-in... > What’s interesting about the Apple decision is that it appears to explicitly separate browsing history and bookmarks, rather than lumping them into a single take-it-or-leave-it package. Apple doesn’t claim to provide any end-to-end encryption guarantees whatsoever for bookmarks: presumably someone who resets your iCloud account password can get those. But your browsing history is protected in a way that even Apple won’t be able to access, in case the FBI show up with a subpoena.
- geor9e 2y ago
  That's not Chrome's browsing history - that's an ad network, adsense, profiling you, via cookies/ip/digital fingerprinting, across every website that serves it's ads. It's like logging into facebook and saying they can see your browsing history - yes some of it, but it's because they're watching a server they own serve you requests.
  - scarface_74 2y ago
    The entire idea behind “privacy sandbox” is to create a profile of you for advertising based on your browsing history and the profile is created by Chrome - without being logged in and without cookies. https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/ https://privacysandbox.com/intl/en_us/ More specifically the Topics API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Topics_API It’s opposed by both Mozilla and Apple and is only supported by Google/Chrome.
    - geor9e 2y ago
      Interesting. So the browser knows your browsing history like every browser does, but it uses it to share some distilled data. Yeah, I definitely don't want that. Looks like I already totally disabled it though, so I'm good I guess. Privacy and security > Ad privacy Ad topics: Generates a list of your interests based on your browsing behavior. Site-suggested ads: Allows advertisers to retarget you based on your interactions. Ad measurement: Enables advertisers to assess ad performance. Toggle each of these settings to "Off" to disable them.
      - scarface_74 2y ago
        Yep. And I slightly misspoke. I said it was only supported by Chrome. More accurately, it is supported by Chrome and some Chromium based browsers.