This looks like parody until you remember that Google's definition of privacy is keeping things strictly between you and Google, and the people there take it seriously. The world would be a much better place if Chrome were not a part of Google at all, though.https://twitter.com/justinschuh/status/1164527986604777472 …
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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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As the old saying goes: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
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The proposals (https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-privacy/privacy-sandbox …) are interesting, but I still think that people do not want to be tracked at all, even if it's hypothetically anonymous. I feel much more optimistic about passing laws like GDPR than relying on new APIs.
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The explicit assumption behind the proposals--its stated!--is that advertising as a revenue model is good for the web. This isn't necessarily true, but it's not unreasonable, and I think
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they honestly believe that they are the best and safest place for all that you used to think of as "yours"
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The problem is that they have cognitive dissonance. Most Googlers seem completely unaware at the practices of their ad division, that most of the ads they sell are for scams or malware, or that they're a monopoly.
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