cronaday

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   by cronaday 4y ago

   Hi dang, I'm new here so I'd appreciate clarification. Someone defending this privacy debacle on Hacker News is a Google employee on the Chrome team and was a business cofounder with the Stanford collaborator. That person not only
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   by cronaday 4y ago

   If a user can somehow someway somewhere learn about what a company is doing, then it’s OK? Really?
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   by cronaday 4y ago

   > Google has written publicly about how this system works If this is news to Hackers News, there is no way that regular Chrome users are aware of it. Saying something in a privacy policy or on a developer website just can't be enoug
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   by cronaday 4y ago

   Just suggesting that prior browser and OS privacy blowups involving those companies have been over less worrisome things, not that those companies are subject to more or less criticism. Looking back on outraged discussions of Mozilla's
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   by cronaday 4y ago

   This is very ethically dubious. Google is collecting raw URLs from Chrome users who turned on history syncing across their own devices, then reusing the data and funneling it through Stanford. No way Chrome users understand or approve