Chrome 70 Now Enables Picture-in-Picture by Default on macOS

[JGRE]

They can even introduce browsing the interstellar internet for all I care, that evil is not gonna touch my Mac, ever again.

Sadfully, I can only watch TV via Chrome as my provider does not support Safari. But this is the only instance I use Chrome on my MBA.
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I certainly don't. Google fooled us more than once with privacy (Chrome sync, location history collection to name most recent examples).
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My problem with Google's stance on user privacy, such as recent Chrome and location history tracking fiascos, is that Google has time again, practiced dark patterns to collect more data. Google opts users in to tracking more data without any warning. For these violations, users needed go to settings and opt out (not always obvious either).

So maybe you are fine with what Google is doing now, but what about in the future?

The only saving grace is that Google does not share your information to advertisers (which Facebook is guilty of). But I am not sure I want Google to harvest email (Gmail), photos (Google Photos) and network traffic (Google WiFi, Chrome) to learn that much more about me in the interest of serving more relevant ads.

Most people are just sheep, they follow the flock without thinking for themselves. Google really loves them.

 

[Enclavean]

Anyone know what google chrome theme they are using in the screenshot?

 

[alexgowers]

If this works by using pip when you are playing a video and minimise or switch to a different tab. Then this is amazing and I want this so bad! This should be default behaviour everytime.

 

[joelhinch]

Anyone know what google chrome theme they are using in the screenshot?

Possibly this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...k-t/ahifcnpnjgbadkjdhagpfjfkmlapfoel?hl=en-GB

 

[Enclavean]

Possibly this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...k-t/ahifcnpnjgbadkjdhagpfjfkmlapfoel?hl=en-GB

Looks pretty close, thanks!

 

[edgonzalez32]

From the article in the link:

"Buried within the settings menu of Chrome’s latest version is an option labeled “Allow Chrome sign-in,” which you can set to off if you’d rather not be automatically signed in to your Google account at the browser level. The problem, as VentureBeat notes, is that this process is opt-out rather than opt-in, meaning all Chrome users will be automatically signed into Google’s browser and likely uploading their sync data unless they specifically change this setting."

Brilliant. That's just sweet! You would almost think that Facebook and Google are owned by the same person, based on how they operate.

When they hide these options in the darkest corners of the settings window, you know that they do not want you to turn them off. But they still need to put them "somewhere", just so that they can say "hey, we gave people a choice".

Hey man I'm just linking to info. The setting to turn it off is there and the instructions on how to get there are laid out clearly.

 

[DeepIn2U]

It can be turned off now:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/17/17988592/chrome-70-release-date-automatic-sign-in-pwa-support

The issue is the end user has to search for the details and then manually turn it off themselves on each machine they use Chrome on.

Like how saying ‘sorry’ when you intentionally did someone wrong by your actions, prethought is acceptable. Some languages have no word equal to sorry as it’s believed an insult and no action is excusable.

 

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[edgonzalez32]

The issue is the end user has to search for the details and then manually turn it off themselves on each machine they use Chrome on.

Like how saying ‘sorry’ when you intentionally did someone wrong by your actions, prethought is acceptable. Some languages have no word equal to sorry as it’s believed an insult and no action is excusable.

Yea idk man. The instructions to turn it off are in the page I linked to.