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Wait, how does one website (google.com) know what happens inside my browsing session on another website (bad-blog.com) after I click over? Hmmmmm This sort of
by snowwrestler 6mo ago
Wait, how does one website (google.com) know what happens inside my browsing session on another website (bad-blog.com) after I click over? Hmmmmm
This sort of announcement just emphasizes the extent to which Google observes ALL your web browsing behavior, thanks primarily to their eyes inside Chrome browser.
You know those warnings when you install a browser extension, about all the things that extension will be able to see and do? Well so can Chrome itself…
- beastman82 6mo agoThey've been crawling the web since inception
- snowwrestler 6mo agoA web crawler reads page content, extracts content and URLs, places them into an index, and then follows links in that index to further build the index and content corpus. Google and others have special crawlers that execute JavaScript to crawl content delivered dynamically. Crawlers do not use the browser back button or browser history. So the only way Google could observe such problems is by observing live human browsing behavior. Also, we know from exhibits in the U.S. DOJ trial that Google does use Chrome browsing behavior as a signal in search ranking. It’s not a hypothetical.
- adrianmonk 6mo ago> Crawlers do not use the browser back button or browser history. Couldn't you instrument the crawler's browser engine to observe whether (while crawling) the page does any behaviors that would result in back button hijacking? No back buttons have to be clicked. You just have to watch whether the mousetrap is set. Since you know how mousetraps work, you don't have to grab the cheese.
- ImPostingOnHN 6mo agoThey likely scan the web pages themselves, but you shouldn't be using Chrome anyways, if you care about privacy from Google.