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Google Chrome IP address protection challenged by industry (www.theregister.com)

submitted 1 year ago by floofloof@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] TCB13@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The diference is that Google says they want to make this feature the default - not something you've to enable like the image proxy.

the setup of this service won’t involve any caching, it’s just a pseudo VPN l

Yes right now it doesn't but the path is obvious. Chrome has a 63% market-share, if you get half of the Internet using this service by default you can be sure that ISPs will even offer datacenter space to Cloudflare as long as they maintain the hardware and cache of the Internet inside their networks. After all they already have similar agreements like this for their CDN.