Got this notification when I opened Chrome when coming back to my desk after lunch.

“We changed our privacy settings to allow us to snoop on what you’re looking at and shove you ads accordingly. Feel free to opt out, but we’ll probably opt you back in when you aren’t paying attention.”

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    Would you rather your data be sent to a browser company or the largest advertising agency in the world?

    … Tell me again how these are the same?

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      That’s a false dichotomy. I’d rather it not be sent to anyone…

      Your data isn’t just sent to a browser company. The browser company shares all of it with an ad agency.

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        You said “isn’t any better” than chrome. Given the choice between the two, there is clearly a better option

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          In regards to privacy, I disagree.

          That ad company is probably just selling your data back to Google anyway.

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            … the ad company IS Google

            Firefox collects diagnostics and some usage data, not browsing history, Google collects absolutely anything and everything.

            Their primary, nor secondary, source of revenue is not selling your data. You can also disable it entirely pretty easily. You cannot do that in Chrome.

            Given the two options, one is clearly better.

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              the ad company IS Google

              No it’s not. It’s called admarketplace

              Firefox collects diagnostics and some usage data, not browsing history,

              They collect everything. It’s all spelled out in no uncertain terms in their privacy policy. I’d suggest you have a look.

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                No it’s not. It’s called admarketplace

                Uh. Google is an advertising agency. Their entire business model is collecting data. Chrome is made by Google, ergo the ad company that Chrome uses is Google because Chrome is Google.

                They collect everything

                Nowhere does it say they collect browsing history. There are multiple places across their site where they explicitly say they do not.

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                  Chrome is Google.

                  I obviously wasn’t talking about Google.

                  Nowhere does it say they collect browsing history

                  Yes it does.

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        Doesn’t really make a difference. Google pays to keep their search engine the default, same as they do for Apple.