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Chrome 69 Adds Forced Login, Threatens Privacy: How to Fix it

ZhangirDuyseke said:
I am realistic unlike you. I understand that I am of no interest to companies, government, FBI or UFO. You care about privacy because you think you are some kind of important person, but you are nobody, nothing. Just an ordinary Joe who has gigantic ego to think that he is someone big.
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Unfortunately your opinion lacks wisdom and your attitude is sophomoric. The more information that is gathered about you without your knowing can be used against you quite easily. People have had their lives ruined due to identity theft. Corporations have supplied governments across the globe with data on "suspects" who turn out to be regular people. Those people have been greated with no-knock raids which have lead to people getting seriously hurt. This is happening globally perpetrated by governments using information supplied to them by private corporations. It isn't about "having something to hide" as much is about the fundemental right to privacy. It would be one thing if Google wasn't working with the NSA and CIA... but there it is... Why do you think they building data warehouses the size of entire villages filled with information about you?
 
For the privacy thing, I don't even want to share my browser habits. Once I've search for some furniture for the kitchen, and 1 month I only got related adds from Google and Amazon for the related crap. Was so annoying.
Also the nr 1 privacy thing it's the Credit Card info and also the password with different shopping sites. I really don't want those to be saved on a public Cloud somewhere where there is a chance (slight but there is) that the info is shared or used in various shaddy purposes. It's not paranoia, those are already exposed facts.

Andromos said:
Yeah I don't like this, if I sign into Gmail now at work in chrome, then my employer gets my history, bookmarks, etc. from my personal devices
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But this is since forever, not just with v69. o_O
 
Easy Rhino said:
Unfortunately your opinion lacks wisdom and your attitude is sophomoric. The more information that is gathered about you without your knowing can be used against you quite easily. People have had their lives ruined due to identity theft. Corporations have supplied governments across the globe with data on "suspects" who turn out to be regular people. Those people have been greated with no-knock raids which have lead to people getting seriously hurt. This is happening globally perpetrated by governments using information supplied to them by private corporations. It isn't about "having something to hide" as much is about the fundemental right to privacy. It would be one thing if Google wasn't working with the NSA and CIA... but there it is... Why do you think they building data warehouses the size of entire villages filled with information about you?
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To add:
The NSA has access to all data mining advertisers with tracking cookies, they can take data from multiple sources and pinpoint you according to your habits and websites you visit, even what porn you like. Google and Facebook has your name and likely your address too, coupled with cookie tracking they know who you are and can start actively gather your data. This is why there is huge fights against legislature and bills that bring up the faintest privacy concerns. If anyone really wants to read up on some privacy issues go to EFF.org.
 
Vayra86 said:
Privacy isn't a feature, its a bug :nutkick:
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It's their business ( more like a virus really :P ), and i am sure even if you were not logged in they could find out though IP used to signing in and the same ip used when not signed in for the most part anyways.

Tickles me silly people bitching about privacy, then use Google.
 
AsRock said:
It's their business ( more like a virus really :p ), and i am sure even if you were not logged in they could find out though IP used to signing in and the same ip used when not signed in for the most part anyways.

Tickles me silly people bitching about privacy, then use Google.
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Duckduckgo!
 
ZhangirDuyseke said:
Sheesh. People care about privacy like they are the most important people in the world! First of all there is no privacy on the Internet, second, what makes you think that one of the biggest tech companies in the world like Google is interested in miserable and worthless works like you?! Or maybe you care about it because you are cybercriminals, terrorists or you sell drugs?
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Considering that people’s past behavior and comments are increasingly being used against them, maybe having it all archived by Facebook, Twitter and google is something to worry about. One example is a case where a young athlete becomes famous, only to have an archived comment (which he had deleted) from his teen years come back to burn him. And the court of public opinion has no mercy in this regard. When you consider just how far the bar has moved in just a few years, well, I bet we all could be condemned. Maybe you won’t ever be famous, but what if it causes you to miss out on a promotion or a new job? Just because the internet isn’t inherently private doesn’t mean you should just give away the farm.

If that doesn’t mean much to you, then consider how big data helped recent elections. Even if no one cares about you or me personally, our contribution to the data set is what makes things like that possible.
 
Trying to push a "solution" that nobody wants :shadedshu:
 
69, what a version number to come into News!:D
 
Seems like now would be a good time to get far away from Google. Already using Iron (as opposed to Chrome, props to @lexluthermiester for the recommendation in an earlier thread) and duckduckgo. Guess gmail would be the next to go. After that, Android? I'm not vehemently opposed to iOS, but I'm sure Apple is no better, in privacy or business practices (such as that infamous phone slowing update or any number of the seemingly infinite anti consumer things they do).
 
I think this thread should be closed because it lost it's meaning since 1st comments where posted..
 
DeathtoGnomes said:
Why anyone uses a browser made by a company that sells personal user information for profits is beyond me. Although I didnt know you had to log into a browser (never used it), my distaste for Chrome just increased. Good luck with The Truman Show, owned by Google.
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This has been my take on Chrome since day 1. Duck Duck Go is my search engine and Ublock and Noscript block google analytics everywhere else.
 
I have been looking for an excuse to switch to Firefox, guess now is the time.
Anyone know of a good GMAIL replacement?
 
Dave65 said:
I have been looking for an excuse to switch to Firefox, guess now is the time.
Anyone know of a good GMAIL replacement?
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GMX.com
 
Firefox
 
I find it interesting that most people have never heard of the saying "If you are not paying for the service, you are the service."

However, there are too many fools out there, like ZhangirDuyseke, who are so intoxicated by big media that they go by "if you don't have anything to hide - why bother" that it is frightening.

However, that phrase is being spoken the loudest in the US. At least that is the way I have perceived it so far. This bein said - he has a point as well. You cannot complain that this has been done while happily posting on social media for everyone to see.

Before you're asking - I have social media as well, but that is LinkedIn only - which only has my CV in order to easier apply for positions, etc. I have no Facebook, Twitter and what ever they are called though.

So yes, as mentioned by other people, privacy has nothing to do with having no info online, but rather how much and available to whom.
 
ZhangirDuyseke said:
Sheesh. People care about privacy like they are the most important people in the world! First of all there is no privacy on the Internet, second, what makes you think that one of the biggest tech companies in the world like Google is interested in miserable and worthless works like you?! Or maybe you care about it because you are cybercriminals, terrorists or you sell drugs?
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Googles and Facebooks entire revenue program is based around the manipulation and selling of personal information, for advertising purposes. You, the end user, is quite literally the product. They love you and want to know everything about you, as that information is the source of their income.
 
Google keeps track when you log in too.
 
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