Why would anyone not using an Android use Chrome? If you're tech savvy enough to be installing alternate browsers, why choose the one whose parent company actively harvests everyone's data (and which is more bloated than Edge, FF, and Safari)?
this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2023
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Your question assumes that users have a clue. Unsafe assumption.
I expect the clueless ones to use the default, pre-installed browser, which on a computer isn't Chrome.
A lot of computers people buy from box stores are preloaded and configured to use chrome as the default for many years. Newer prebuilt a May no longer do that, but I doubt it.
I would have agreed with you about Edge when it was MS’s own engine. It was lightweight and fast. Even early builds on the Chromium stack were decent. Lately, Edge is more bloated than Chrome! It’s really showing MS’s true colors these days.
Microsoft has always impressed me with their ability to ruin genuinely good products.
I couldn't help but think of this (nearly 20 year old) video in response to that comment. 😁
I used Edge a bit at work because it feels like Office365 stuff runs better on it, but that might be placebo.
Firefox runs it all just as good!
Because people are lazy to switch. 10 years ago Chrome was a far better browser than anything else & people have their google account filled with their passwords & bookmarks now. Most don't even know how easy it is to migrate all that to Firefox, or that Firefox is actually good since Quantum.
Also why would you use Chrome on Android? On Android at least you can switch to other stuff, unlike on iOS.
I wasn't arguing people on Android should use Chrome, it's just the default browser, so I don't expect most people to replace it.
The irony with this is if incognito was really untracable then the government would be pushing to make it less secure just like they're already actively trying to force backdoors in Signal and other actually private services because "think of the children".
I just want to chat with my friends in private, we're not talking about anything bad just video games
But the children, Scrubbles, think of how they'll be exploited
No I think there are other ways to solve that problem that don't involve reading all of my messages. What about hashing word combinations, or AI that could give a warning indicator to companies without giving out all of the...
THE CHILDREN, THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION
o ok.
Well if you're not doing anything wrong why try to hide it at all?
/S
I want my $2
So what exactly are they alleged to have tracked from incognito users? The article mentions search history, which of course they're going to continue to track because Google the search engine is not the same as Google Chrome the browser and the search engine has no business knowing or caring if you're in incognito mode or not
Chrome sends the text, progressively, as you type it into the address/search bar, so it can auto-complete results. This is what I believe they were referring to. Even if you don't use Google as the search engine, it still sends those characters to Google.
If you set up ZAP/ Burp/ etc you can watch the requests go out in realtime.
Oh right, I suppose they could've not done that that's true
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Google has agreed to settle a US lawsuit claiming it invaded the privacy of users by tracking them even when they were browsing in "private mode".
US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers put a scheduled trial for the case on hold in California on Thursday, after lawyers said they had reached a preliminary settlement.
It said this had turned Google into an "unaccountable trove of information" on user preferences and "potentially embarrassing things".
It added that Google could not "continue to engage in the covert and unauthorized data collection from virtually every American with a computer or phone".
Earlier this month, the technology giant said it would pay $700m to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of US states that accused Google of quashing competition to its Play Store on Android devices.
The video game company sued Google in 2020 for unlawfully making its app store dominant over rivals.
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