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Google started out with a “don’t be evil” motto when it launched its first product, Google Search. Today, Google is a different company. It has created numerous products and abandoned a lot.
How do they lie? If one uses Chrome he probably trusts google, and sharing IP with google could be more beneficial, than sharing with all websites he visit, that depends on use cases. Sure the auditory of Chrome probably do not cares and google sure would benefit from this feature themselves, yet I don’t see where they lie though.
Take the IP Protection “feature”. They hide your IP address from individual sites while hoovering up all of the user’s data into their own servers, to use for their own ends.
Privacy hasn’t been enhanced, if anything it’s been weakened by giving one company a log of everything done through the browser. So, it’s a fucking lie
But if you use Chrome you allready give all your data to Google. And by using this feature your IP is hidden, so that is an improvement, indeed. I don’t see it something cool to make me start using Chrome lol. But if I allready use Chrome, than this feature seems good.
Ah, I didn’t think anyone concerned about privacy used Chrome. But yes, for Chrome users it’s an improvement
Well, with that proxying feature, I mostly meant that they’re not doing it for the privacy, but rather for those other benefits.
Much like with 8.8.8.8 for DNS and AMP for the server-side, this feature locks down the client-side, ensuring that internet traffic goes over their infrastructure.
Yes, user privacy is short-term somewhat improved, because their competitors can’t track you quite as easily anymore, but if they truly cared about improving privacy/security, there would be so many much lower hanging fruits they could pick, like end-to-end-encryption for Chrome Sync by default. They don’t pick those, because it would impact their own ability to invade user privacy.