Re:Google adds experimental setting to hide full URLs in Chr...
by feanaro on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @04:21AM
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Is Chrome's telemetry so invasive that it reports about all URLs visited? Otherwise I don't see how daily Chrome visitors on google.com would be helpful in this estimate.
I avoid online apps, I don't play a lot of games (and if I do, they're not big titles which are likely to have telemetry) and yes, I primarily use FOSS.
> (mostly because a lot of open-source lacks a centralized vendor who would be willing to pay the cost to collect and interpret that data to improve the software).
This is almost surely an element of it, but I think a respect for privacy and a general distaste for telemetry among FOSS users are more important.
I avoid online apps, I don't play a lot of games (and if I do, they're not big titles which are likely to have telemetry) and yes, I primarily use FOSS.
> (mostly because a lot of open-source lacks a centralized vendor who would be willing to pay the cost to collect and interpret that data to improve the software).
This is almost surely an element of it, but I think a respect for privacy and a general distaste for telemetry among FOSS users are more important.