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$5 Billion Lawsuit Accuses Google of Tracking Chrome Users in Incognito Mode
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So Google made a browser that prevents you from storing your own information but not their servers and ad-friends 🤣 🤣 🤣 Oh how much we miss you George Orwell.
You have to be complete retard by now to use anything Google or similar and expect privacy. If you are against their business model, the best thing you can do is preach yourself and others to move away from anything and everything that is Google or Facebook or similar. Here is a startup list:
Email=ProtonMail
Search=DuckDuckGo
Browser=Brave/FireFox
messaging=Signal
Not necessarly private but better alternatives:
Gdrive=iCloud
GoogleMaps=Apple Maps
Unfortunately there is no YouTube alternative and the only viable alternative to Android is iOS.
If you are interested in privacy friendly alternatives I highly recommend this site: https://www.privacytools.io
You have to be complete retard by now to use anything Google or similar and expect privacy. If you are against their business model, the best thing you can do is preach yourself and others to move away from anything and everything that is Google or Facebook or similar. Here is a startup list:
Email=ProtonMail
Search=DuckDuckGo
Browser=Brave/FireFox
messaging=Signal
Not necessarly private but better alternatives:
Gdrive=iCloud
GoogleMaps=Apple Maps
Unfortunately there is no YouTube alternative and the only viable alternative to Android is iOS.
If you are interested in privacy friendly alternatives I highly recommend this site: https://www.privacytools.io
I thought about using ProtonMail but it occurred to me that just about everybody I email doesn't use a secure email service, so while my email might not have been data mined at my end, it surely is at the recipient's end. Or am I missing something?
Also, from a security perspective, could Safari have been on your browser list (aside from the fact that it's not that great)?
My ISP knows nothing about my data as I use a VPN client. Thus, my connections are encrypted.
1-The more people move to secure email services, the more you don't have to worry about the other end of things. The more people resist and cling on privacy abusing services the more public privacy breaching will remain the "normality". Someone has to push the ball forward.
2-While your emails can be data mined on the end of the recipient user, for them to have complete history of your messaging they have to collect data from Gmail, Outlook, Yahoo, Yandex, and every other email service/server out there. If you use privacy invading email service, they just have to log in your account and its all there, every email you sent or received or deleted even for a decade or more. Don't make it so easy on the corporate miners..etc.
3-Security is different from privacy, privacy meaning your data is not shared. Security means its locked from malicious/illegal attacks. From a security POV, I don't know I guess its as good as any other browser. From privacy POV, you never know whats built into that Safari code behind the scenes so its always better to use the Open Source Free alternative(FireFox, Brave). Of course, you can trust Apple more than Google since Apple makes money selling services and hardware and Google makes money by selling ads and your data.
Don't be afraid to make the switch, all browsers do the same exact thing its just about adapting and people are reluctant of change, give it a try. If you decided to use FireFox google something called "FireFox hardening" and you can also use Tor browser which lets your browse the internet anonymously.
You can do that, but you still rely on YouTube, you are just shielding yourself from it.
Right and Google redefined the definition of "Incognito" from "Not Known to others" to "Not Known by yourself". They should have called it "Dementia Mode".
Private Browsing in Safari works the same and includes the same limitations AFAIK.
A California judge says the lawsuit can move forward.
When are people around here going to learn that Google should not be used, if one cares about privacy and a company not lying to you.
www.bloomberg.com
When are people around here going to learn that Google should not be used, if one cares about privacy and a company not lying to you.
Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
www.bloomberg.com
A California judge says the lawsuit can move forward.
When are people around here going to learn that Google should not be used, if one cares about privacy and a company not lying to you.
Google Must Face Suit Over Snooping on ‘Incognito’ Browsing
Getting targeted ads vs random ads is a lesser evil than broken Safari browser plus Apple tracks too. This is Chrome blocking Apple tracking.
I live in the UK where the government is spying on me as a matter of course (yours probably is too), i'm really not all that worried about Google on that basis.
So one injustice justifies another. But you’re right the sheer amount of CCTV cameras that are used in the UK are in themselves a privacy issue already on top of the usual government and carrier surveillance.
Oh I wasn't refering to the CCTV ..
The UK is secretly testing a controversial web snooping tool
The Investigatory Powers Act, or Snooper’s Charter, was introduced in 2016. Now one of its most contentious surveillance tools is being secretly trialled by internet firms