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Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch.
WaPo ^
| June 21, 2019
Posted on 06/21/2019 3:06:25 PM PDT by upchuck
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The Slimjet browser I use is based on Chrome. But it doesn't track you around the Internet. Not tracking you is one reason Slimjet is generally faster than Chrome.
I use Duckduckgo for searches, unlike Google, they don't track you either.
For add-ons I use Ad Block Plus and Ghostery. Both are excellent. To get around paywalls I use the Reader View add-on. outline.com is also good for this.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:06:25 PM PDT
by
upchuck
To: upchuck; null and void
[Our latest privacy experiment found Chrome ushered more than 11,000 tracker cookies into our browser in a single week.]
I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya. A Google product spying?
Say it ain’t so! (no offense)
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:07:55 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: upchuck
Firefox and Duckduckgo
I’m still being watched, but I must be pretty boring.
To: upchuck
I use Chromium. It’s bright and shiny like Chrome but without all of the nasties.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:09:35 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(I heard a joke the other day that the CNN poll showed . . . No that was it. The CNN poll.)
To: upchuck
The best part, if you want to read the article you have to turn add blocking off.
Hmmm....
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:09:36 PM PDT
by
ImJustAnotherOkie
(All I know is The I read in the papers.)
To: upchuck
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:10:19 PM PDT
by
RandallFlagg
(Fact: Gun control laws kill innocents.)
To: upchuck
Brave browser. It blocks trackers and ads. You can watch Youtube without ever seeing an ad.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:10:51 PM PDT
by
Overtaxed
To: RandallFlagg
It’s installed maybe used once.
I will try to do more with it.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:14:48 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(Disc jockeys are as intwerchangeable as spark plugs.)
To: upchuck
Google has been running a program on the sly called “software reporter tool” that scans the content of your computer and reports it to Google, under the ludicrous claim that they are looking for software incompatible with Chrome.
Yes it is probably on your computer right now if you have Chrome installed. You don’t even have to use it - it will launch itself at 5am when most people won’t notice. If you have some modest tech skills you can disable it to use Chrome safely, but they don’t own up to this at all and didn’t ask permission.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:16:01 PM PDT
by
thoughtomator
(The Clinton Coup attempt was a worse attack on the USA than was 9/11)
To: Overtaxed
Brave also has Tor built in incase you don’t have a VPN.
Great product.
To: All
Google Chrome has become surveillance software." Become? It was designed that way since its inception.
"Its time to switch.
Should have never downloaded it in the first place.
To: upchuck
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:20:23 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: RandallFlagg
Me too. Great piece of s/w.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:21:31 PM PDT
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sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: crusher2013
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:22:41 PM PDT
by
sauropod
(Yield to sin, and experience chastening and sorrow; yield to God, and experience joy and blessing.)
To: Peter W. Kessler
“I must be pretty boring”
We know.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:23:03 PM PDT
by
fruser1
To: SaveFerris; COUNTrecount; Nowhere Man; FightThePower!; C. Edmund Wright; jacob allen; ...
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
The biggest killer of mankind
Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!
To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:23:27 PM PDT
by
null and void
(Stamp out philately!)
To: null and void
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:26:00 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: upchuck
Amazon owns WaPo.
Conflict of interest.
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:27:12 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: upchuck
I’m using Brave, trying to ditch Firefox completely.
To: upchuck
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posted on
06/21/2019 3:31:10 PM PDT
by
momincombatboots
(Do you know anyone who isnÂ’t a socialist after 65? Freedom exchanged for cash and control.)
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