This is Google’s reasoning. Before now, they didn’t have a good excuse for getting a list of every web page, or at least every domain, you visited. Now they get it expressly from your specific Google Chrome installation, with your IP address, and the name of the destination.
That data is genuinely anti-competitive, but the competition has always been in violating as much user privacy (for maximum profit), as possible.
they didn’t have a good excuse for getting a list of every web page, or at least every domain, you visited
I guess this move is way bigger than that, it is really about becoming the middle man to the internet, check my comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/5279221
I’m sure Google has their own shitty reasons, but also get bent, shitheads 🖕
of course Google wants to know everywhere you go
This is Google’s reasoning. Before now, they didn’t have a good excuse for getting a list of every web page, or at least every domain, you visited. Now they get it expressly from your specific Google Chrome installation, with your IP address, and the name of the destination.
That data is genuinely anti-competitive, but the competition has always been in violating as much user privacy (for maximum profit), as possible.
I guess this move is way bigger than that, it is really about becoming the middle man to the internet, check my comment here: https://lemmy.world/comment/5279221