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Scary stuff While 3.5 billion people use Chrome, Google can see + record vast amounts of user interaction data for *every* websites visited Not limited to Google searches Consider the leverage this data gives them with ads, ranking signals, privacy, and maintaining dominance

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Bert Hubert

@bert_hu_bert

Aug 21, 2022

I made a very very simple tool that makes some noise every time your computer sends data to Google. Here a demo on the official Dutch government jobs site. The noise starts while typing the domain name already. Code, currently Linux only: github.com/berthubert/goo

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Darth Autocrat (Lyndon NA)

@darth_na

Aug 27, 2022

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@CyrusShepard

? That's been a thing for ... for ... for ever? And if you think Chrome browser is bad, now look at mobiles ......... (To be fair, some of it is "needed" - it's not like they are going to push a 45Mb "suggestions" file to the browser every 24Hrs etc.)

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Didn't say it was new 😉 and I suspect the majority of casual users are completely unaware We should be tweeting this everyday, tbh

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Aren't a lot of these just being sent to Google Analytics, which just about every site uses?

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Some of it undoubtedly is

Matthew Brown - @matthewjbrown@mas.to

@MatthewJBrown

Aug 27, 2022

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@CyrusShepard

Gotta wonder how much they still rely on ‘ol Googlebot

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And all of the Google-recommended replacement strategies to replace 3rd-party cookies, are built out of that Chrome-collected data. That will be the instrument to define what stays on your device and what gets “anonymized” and uploaded to history records.