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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    1 year ago

    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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                  That’s the sound of someone who realizes they forgot what conversation they were having and refused to admit it. That’s okay, it happens to the best of us