My first thought upon reading the title:
It was always spyware
this post was submitted on 17 Mar 2021
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...why are you acting so surprised?! We have known this all along after all... firefox gang here BTW.
Yeah I switched to FF a few years ago precisely because of that, and would never touch Chrome again.
I only use chrome to watch internet videos illegally. Ublock doesn’t seem to block all i need in firefox, unless that’s changed
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Has always been?!
points gun
Exactly
Luckily there are projects like Ungoogled Chromium to avoid this kind of thing :persevering face:
Aren't the devs of Ungoogled Chromium adamant that removing all Google telemetry is like whack a mole, and they're never sure if they've gotten all of it?
Honestly, I don't know, but I have noticed that Ungoogled Chromium is lighter, safer and faster than Chrome and Vivaldi. That's why I use it as a secondary web browser. Still, I only use it for sites that work only with Chromium. Normally I use Firefox Nightly (it's the one that works best on my PC).
Safer? How can you tell?
They add flags to improve security and privacy that are not in Chromium, they use features added by other Chromium forks (like Iridium Browser) that are focused on privacy, they also avoid any external connection and it is extremely lightweight (because they remove all Google components).
very interesting!
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They avoided updating their apps on Apple devices for months to avoid revealing how much data they get from people.
They care about security, but as long as it's not in contrast with their business model.
and that is why i use open source things.
i gotta give apple credit. their software may be closed source but their privacy policy seems to be decent and is exposing all these data mining companies.
It's an artifact of them retaining a traditional business model where they sell you a product and you pay them money for it. Since they're selling you a product they want you to have confidence that the product works in your interest. On the other hand, companies like Google is that they give stuff like Chrome to you for free and then make money mining your usage data. So the actual product ends up being your data and Chrome is just a tool for getting it out of you.
though would it still be some nefarious marketing stunt? or is it just the same old apple that comes out with fake innovation for just the sake of gaining more hype? let's see what comes up next from apple, who has their OSes track literally everything.
personally, I think that they're just trying to ditch their competitions so people would get more tied to the apple ecosystem. their privacy policy means nothing as you'll realize the only purpose from the first thing you're told to do when you use an iphone is to track you around, the perfect monster of privacy. closed source, centralized, and many apps preinstalled belonging to them. by piecing it together you'll find that they could just print out your whole life in detail for you to read, and for anyone else too!
Unfortunately, there is no reason to believe this is anything other than industry giant Apple exposing competitors' horrible practices to entertain their own reputation as a """premium""", privacy-respecting brand while keeping all your data to themselves (when they're not busy giving it away to U.S. intelligence agencies).
we dont know because its all closed off
For Apple lovers don't yet say thanks on apple, Steve Jobs used to use Android instead of iphone just saying
My view is that only open tech is worth getting invested in. It's important to recognize that no matter how good a company might be sooner or later their business incentives will no longer be aligned with your interests.
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Where do people get this information? In the Appstore? How does one see it. I can't find it anywhere
can see it here under "App Privacy" section https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/google-chrome/id535886823
Thank you.
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