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.”
Would you rather your data be sent to a browser company or the largest advertising agency in the world?
… Tell me again how these are the same?
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You said “isn’t any better” than chrome. Given the choice between the two, there is clearly a better option
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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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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.
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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Do you even remember what conversation we were having?
The browser company in question is primarily funded by the advertising company in question.
Doesn’t really make a difference. Google pays to keep their search engine the default, same as they do for Apple.