Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by snr on Friday September 21, 2018 @06:45PM (#18043238)

>"The new version of Chrome signs you into the browser even if you don't want to sign into the software itself"

Damn. I just realized that. Signing out of browser signs you out of GMail. And signing into GMail signs you into the browser. Went to download Edge but turns out it's not on Win Server. MSFT really needs to get its act together.

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by zachberger on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:12PM (#18043367)

Out of curiosity why are you using a web browser on a server?

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by pmontra on Saturday September 22, 2018 @01:42AM (#18044667)

I used one yesterday on Windows Server 2016 Datacenter because the new version of the only application running there needed .NET 4.7.2. It started IE which after a long sequence of allowing web sites (tracking and not, included Google Analytics) eventually managed to download the installer. IE was already on the server. I really wanted to install Firefox to avoid all that absurdity of whitelisting sites.

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by snr on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:18PM (#18053281)

Employer's choice of workstation OS :/

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by koolba on Friday September 21, 2018 @07:21PM (#18043398)

Why not Firefox?

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Re:Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track S... by snr on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:19PM (#18053293)

Yep that's what I ended up eventually downloading. Edge on Win 10 is not bad actually.

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