What does the Terms of Service on it say?
It’s google.
Of course it’s evil.
I kill it in task manager every time my browsers adds it, then go and delete it altogether. No adverse results in any browser session from doing that. Your browser will work fine without it, no matter what messages your browser gives you. The only things hat don’t work right without it are related to Google, and none of that matters.
I wouldn’t take the chance. I am doing everything I can to stay as far away from Google as I can, just on general principles. It’s hard, because I still need it for email at the moment — too many contacts do not have my ProtonMail address and I can’t use the migration tool because my Mac is so old, but I will accomplish that soon — at which time I will delete everything Google-related.
I get the same pop-up and hit the “deny/block” button. Same with the “xxx would like to use your location” get the “deny”. Even though they still probably do. 😕
Avoid all things google like the plague.
Detail all Google server sites.
This will come in handy when we have to “process” those sites.
I mostly use Brave Browser
So using Brave On Amazon if I want to watch a video I must agree to installation of Widevine. Otherwise I never see anything on the internet about Widevine
I also use use Chrome. There is no asking at Amazon about Widevine, probably because Chrome comes with it pre-installed.
Anything to do with Google is EVIL!!
Everything Google says is carefully designed to deceive.
really....Is this a question ???
Google is involved ...go straight to the worst possible response that you might ever think of....
Google and the Lake of Fire are one, in my humble opinion.
Every time they do an upgrade it becomes more difficult to be a mind reader. Made a big mistake upgrading to Windows 10.
interesting. thanks to all posters.
If it’s made by google, it’s sending them data. Widwvine is required for some streaming sites. Just use a VPN.
One of my biggest, most important, rules:
If it has anything to do with Google, don’t install it, don’t use it, run away from it as fast as you can. The only exception to this is my cell phone which runs the android (google) operating system. Even there I use the phone only for phone calls and as a hotspot for broadband as there is no broadband out here in the sticks.
AVOID GOOGLE. PERIOD!
You do the math.
A few years ago I worked on a WideVine implementation for the Intel based Samsung tablet. At that time, there was nothing nefarious in there, just a bunch of stuff to get the keys, and allow you to watch streaming video content.
Anything made by Alphabet Inc (Google) is compromised. They fully cooperate with the 5-eyes, 9-eyes, 14-eyes cabal. Use Tor as your browser and just duckduckgo search with your appropriate Panamanian VPN provider (NordVPN) who is not a member and will not provide user data to these countries. I never thought I would suggest using a Panamanian based company and I wouldn’t if there were other truly secure alternatives. I don’t know it is against policy to promote a particular product here, if so I apologize. But any VPN service in one of the eyes countries will turn over your data. And since you are probably a conservative Google will be more than happy to provide that when the coming political persecution gets started in earnest. But everything you have ever done is stored (encrypted or not) in a big shiny black building in Utah with it’s own power plant. There are a lot of DRM alternatives but I don’t know where they are based and what their policies are. A few of the top of my head are digify, Vitrium, NetX and CapLinked.