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Chromium browsers have been quietly sending user information to Google (www.techspot.com)

submitted 4 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 41 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Indeed. I’m trying to figure out how “quietly” makes any sense in that headline. Google has been very public about what they’re doing, and has usually published their proposed actions months in advance of actually taking them.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 27 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It probably is intended to indicate that Google's software doesn't have a notice anywhere it's sending this data that a normal human could reasonably find.

There's a lot of 'Data we collect' stuff on sites and software now, and I'm entirely sure I've never seen this on any browser using Google's code for this.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This also says "chromium browsers", so maybe people who are using some other one than actual Google Chrome have not known and/or not been told of the collection happening.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 15 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm entirely sure it's upstream of Chrome proper, and kinda consolidates my opinion that anything Google is near should be treated as suspect.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago

I would hope Google free Chromium doesn’t but who knows.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 4 months ago

Cut it all off!!

well besides spytube... can't really cut that off yet...