DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by rfoo on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @05:57AM (#42182104)

> If you ever doubt it, go check out Google Takeout. You'll be shocked at the amount of data you see there.

I sign in browser-wide and I do takeouts regularly. I don't see my browsing data.

> It doesn't ship with most essential apps, including a Phone app. In previous versions of Android, all of these were a part of AOSP.

And back when they were part of AOSP I never saw these example apps in the wild. Every vendor ships their own phone app. Every single one.

There's some "hey we compile a extremely old and vulnerable version of AOSP"-style Android distributions, mainly advertised for builtin su/Magisk or "degoogle", which did use these example apps, though.

I agree with other critics, they are toxic.

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by atahanacar on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @06:01AM (#42182136)

You've disabled the option to see it. Your data is still being collected.

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by rfoo on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @06:03AM (#42182154)

Yeah, I really wish there is a working option to make me see it, then.

I always enable every data collection option in my privacy page, because even if I don't they get the data anyway, so why bother?

I do see my entire Google Search history since 2006.

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Re:DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome by didntcheck on Tuesday November 19, 2024 @08:40AM (#42183290)

That's unfalsifiable conjecture. I could just as easily assert that dang is building secret dossiers on all of us from our IP-request logs - we just can't see it

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