People at Google and Facebook, who have done more than any other company to introduce surveillance into all facets of human life, get genuinely and sincerely upset at being called anti-privacy. The psychology of it is amazing.
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I wrote an essay a few weeks back about the tension between the legalistic, narrow sense of privacy and the world of total surveillance these companies built https://idlewords.com/2019/06/the_new_wilderness.htm …
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I'm not sure it would help so much as make it two companies that know everything about me, though. Seeing as Chrome would still have my browsing history, and Google my email, phone service, phone OS, app I buy my groceries with, and fifty million other things...
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In that scenario, Chrome the company wouldn't know a thing about your browsing history.
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The browser you're asking for is called Firefox.
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I've advocated for Chrome and Chromium to be split off into an independent group. Preferably as required by the FTC.
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there should be an Apache/Linux style Chromium Foundation
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> but without an agreed upon set of standards, attempts to improve user privacy are having unintended consequences *are hurting Google's revenue
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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I've always had Google/Chrome set to NOT save search history at all. If I go to History from dashboard/browser links, there's nothing there. Just realized if I go Ctrl+H, it's alllll there. So the setting just means "let me pretend you're not saving my search history". =/
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Search history stores your searches on your Google account in the cloud; the browser history (ctrl+h) is stored locally in a file on your computer.
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