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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    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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      1 year ago

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

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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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            1 year ago

            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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                1 year ago

                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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                    1 year ago

                    Yeah I’m not engaging in these sort of rhetorical questions. Goodbye.