Gregory's Server
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 @stux Simply having installed Chrome on your computer without thoroughly uninstalling all the embedded bits of it means you don’t have full privacy. Even after you delete the application, there are bits phoning home to google every day. You can be sure google is using every ping it can to fingerprint and track you. @johnlehet @stux that's very alarming. Do you happen to know how to delete the remaining bits? @afrangry @stux Yeah, on the mac I used the “Find Any File” App. I did this I think on Sunday. Many of the bits I found had been updated that day, in spite of my having deleted Chrome months ago. If you do a web search on this you can see Google does this and these embedded updaters are aggressive. Some people report bad impacts from them. I noticed when I had an error on a backup. Checking, it was one of these files which had apparently been in the middle of updating during the backup.   @stux i only use it for testing purposes 😅 just for the cookies and that when testing a new login or something @KawaTora totally blows my mind that people think that bill gates is shooting them up with nano bots in the COVID vaccines when they already have better (and way cheaper) ways of getting all your data already... “I refuse to get vaccinated because they are trying to track me. You can read all about the real facts in my Facebook page.” Oh the irony.  Doesn't matter if you are using a VPN, Governments are buying netflow data from ISP's which can piece together what sites you have been visiting. https://www.vice.com/en/article/jg84yy/data-brokers-netflow-data-team-cymru   @stux why some people use @torproject, @i2p, @Freenet and/or #GNUnet? 🤷 → 🧅🙋🐰🦬 [UPDATE] @stux If the problem is your ISP spying, you can just use ECH on Firefox to quickly fix this I'd actually be much more concerned with Google's "browser" (spyware at this point really) :blobCat_giggle:.  @stux In my opinion the feature itself isn't a problem but browsers picked up really bad name for it. Chrome's "Incognito" is a little better than Firefox's "Private tab" or Edge's "InPrivate" but all can be misleading. The point of this feature is to try to present you with clean identity to the website you are viewing, this is where you are coming incognito. Also it cleans up some traces from this browsing session locally as a bonus. It far from useless but should be named and explained better.  @stux Not for the world, nope. I think of the usefulness of incognito as for avoiding those embarrassing url autocompletions during a zoom and preventing "I'm sorry, your browsing history has WHAT?"   @stux Actually they don't with HTTPS. They see the hostname but not the page path. At least if they don't break the certificates and encryption with MITM, what some are doing but aren't allowed to give any details on this. Your ISP: You: Hiding from government surveillance using a VPN Your ISP: We just sold your netflow data to the NSA, hang on was it the NSA, maybe it was China. Couldn't have been the Russians, they purchased last week. |
@stux anyone who uses chrome doesn't care about their security.