Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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This is misleading. Not sure if by ignorance or malice, but it's very misleading.
This isn't happening with your browser bookmarks. This is Google Collections, which is a shareable bookmarking feature, meaning it can be made publicly available. That's why it's moderated. It's basically Google's version on something like Pinterest.
All the more reason to switch to Firefox
Yep I use Firefox for everything, but I keep chrome installed as a backup when needed.
The most common reason for opening chrome is for Google related things. Certain google docs features like the add-ons store only worked in Chrome, but the add-ons themselves work anywhere. Or signing into Google Drive desktop app failed when the auth window opened in Firefox or Edge, but it worked in Chrome.
I just thought that was Chrome breaking things in other browsers intentionally, since no other services had that kind of issue.
Honestly, I’m not surprised. Not just because of their lack of privacy (them knowing your bookmarks), but also legally. Some countries are trying to crack down on piracy, and other illegal material, asking companies (like Google) to do this.
Bottom line, don’t use Chrome, and Google Sync.
This doesn't involve your browser bookmarks. Google Collections is a link sharing tool.
It doesn't feel legal. A bookmark is textual data you've stored on your computer for later reference, and while it is on their application, somehow this feels wrong. It's definitely wrong ethically, but is there something in the user agreement that says they have full reign of whatever the browser can touch?
Pretty much everything you do on Chrome gets sent to Google. It is one of, if not the worst browsers, for privacy. Their Privacy Policy is pretty clear on this. It’s all for a better “user experience”.
laughing in firefoxian.
There was a post on this yesterday.
They are moderating something, the issue with the article was it's not user's bookmarks. It's some app-specific feature called collections.
edit: it's the same post...it's a bit weird linking a direct link to a lemee.ee post when they get federated here anyway.....
That's something I hate about the fediverse is that we have so many layers of links that you never get the original article, you get seven recursive links to other federated sites and maybe if you're lucky on the last link you find the original article.
Not bookmarks. Google collection
Even if you hate Google, don't go around spreading bullshit, please
What the actual hell? I hate this so much. Google won't touch right-wing extremist content, yet they'll just poof your bookmarks? Bullshit.
Well right wing extremists support their right to consume and subjugate the entire web into their jurisdiction, so........ No real surprise they back the fascists and their openly violent goals and rhetoric.
For fun though put some content on there about using violence to defend against their violence and see how quick you get moderated into oblivion 😂
well beyond don't be evil
It's like big tech corporations have been having a tournament called 'Who's Most Fucked Up' Cup for past few years, we're getting into the finals lately and Google and Microsoft are favourites for the golden medal.
cinched
I wonder how they did it. The sync data is supposed to be protected by E2EE where the key is derived from the user password or an separate sync password, at least before I abandon Chrome and go FF few years ago.
Last I looked, Chrome’s sync is not E2EE. Next to nothing (user space) is E2EE, in Google’s ecosystem. By default it’s only Encryption in Transit. I think you can enable a Passphrase (encryption on device), but that’s optional.
Encrypted between... Chrome and Chrome? Two installations of Google's non-FOSS browser? You never really had control over that data.
At least what they claim to be back then.