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.”

  • @Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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    11 year ago

    … 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.

    • @HughJanus@lemmy.ml
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      -11 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.

      • @Stumblinbear@pawb.social
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        01 year ago

        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.