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Google is the master of fake Privacy features - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

submitted 11 months ago by ooli@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] Kissaki@feddit.de 45 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Consent popup without symmetric disagree violating GDPR.

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Ironic given the article topic.

I won't be reading this article because of the gate.

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

Archive.is is your friend, and doesn't give the offending website any clicks.

https://archive.is/VRzQN

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 16 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thx for sharing.

This article makes for a real nice and clear summary I will share with people around me that don't get it or can't be bothered with too much details.

Let's hope it will be enough to encourage them to reconsider their choice of browsers and online services.

[–] shortkid113@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Think the best response when I've told someone that their data is getting harvest was "Why wouldn't I want that?". That puts the statement of "I have nothing to hide" to shame

[–] groet@feddit.de 18 points 11 months ago

That is a real problem. In a perfect world you would want all of your data to be available to everyone who can use it to improve your live. And only getting advertisement for things you actually want/need (not only think you want/need) is a real improvement of your live.

Sadly "improving lives of consumers" is not the goal of any of the big data collectors and as such any data collected is or will be missused to cause harm to the owner even if it is not directly obvious.

[–] Libb@jlai.lu 6 points 11 months ago

Yep... There is a lot of teaching/educating to be done.

[+] mintycactus@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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[–] Libb@jlai.lu 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Lol what will you say them? Your IP won’t be shared to other websites, but only to Google, switch your browser now! That will be so dumb…

I won't tell them much. I will suggest they read it and let them know I will gladly answer any question they may have after reading it.

They're just ignorant of the technical considerations but they still have a fully working brain, and given some lead they should easily understand the topic at hand (a bit like, say, if I discussed the differences in the process of painting watercolor versus oil or gouache while you have yourself never painted a canvas in your live I would not consider you too dumb to understand, or laugh at you, I would instead take some time to explain you what are those essential differences and why they matter. Well, this article will do exactly that in regard to Google, for those persons).

As I wrote in my first comment, this article is a nice and clear summary of the issue (Google privacy-washing) and should help them understand or, if you prefer, realize that this issue may be worth getting more into it. Then, could begin our discussion.

Don't you agree that understanding there is an issue is a required starting point for anyone to take any decision in order to try to correct said issue?

As for the rest of your well thought-out comment, here is my take: I hope they will change, and not just their browser, but I certainly will not tell them to change or to do anything they don't want.
I know we live in this strange new world, where hostility and mockery is becoming the norm, but barking orders or Loling at the face of people is not what a discussion is supposed to be. Maybe that is something that's worth repeating, no matter how dumb it sounds.