It bothers me that this Advanced Protection Program feature (which protects against risky downloads) requires turning on a sync feature that hands data over to Google. Single-use Gmail logins are becoming the new PGP keys, with all the fun that entails.https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/advanced-protection-program-expands-chrome/ …
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If Chrome were split off from Google, it could be one of the most privacy-advancing technologies on the Internet. It's very upsetting to see the immense level of effort that goes into it vitiated by the fact that it's run by a surveillance company.
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To be clear here, I don't mean that Google corporate comes in at night and packs Chrome full of surveillance backdoors. Rather, I mean the interests of the Chrome team (user agency) are often in diametric opposition to the interests and business model of their corporate parent.
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