Google is launching more and more "privacy" products. But do these really benefit the privacy of users?

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.

  • ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    10 months ago

    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

    • mintycactus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      10 months ago

      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.

      • ImTryingLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Ah, I didn’t think anyone concerned about privacy used Chrome. But yes, for Chrome users it’s an improvement