I've tweaked a lot of Chrome settings already, and I do have a personal twitch about privacy, but some of this was eye opening even for me. Check it out, Chrome users. Make sure you are comfortable with what it's doing.
I accidentally allowed chrome to load on the late lamented XP machine. I immediately removed it, as much as I was able, but it was my impression that it still had its claws in for the rest of the life of the device. I've never used it otherwise, but my sister has it on my mother's computer as a choice.
It's really tiresome how a lot of these things start happening silently and some privacy crusader has to go find them and write a blog entry and tell the rest of us and then some of us go fix what we need to fix and then some more things happen silently... It really does feel more and more like a war.
I wish I knew. After all, anti-privacy is pretty much the biggest business model left standing, isn't it? Ads are far less lucrative until you get all that pesky privacy out of the way.
I know a few people who work at Google (who doesn't?) but even if they'd be permitted to discuss it, to my knowledge none of them have the ... awareness? ... of privacy that would be needed to answer this question well.
I said once, a week or two back, to someone I love deeply: I need a throwaway phone. My REAL phone would be accessible only to my husband and to a specific friend who happens to work in the area of protecting electronic privacy. Unspoken but heartbreakingly obvious was "and not to you." That did NOT feel good. Still doesn't.
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However, how much does that count if I use Gmail or Google search services?
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I know a few people who work at Google (who doesn't?) but even if they'd be permitted to discuss it, to my knowledge none of them have the ... awareness? ... of privacy that would be needed to answer this question well.
I said once, a week or two back, to someone I love deeply: I need a throwaway phone. My REAL phone would be accessible only to my husband and to a specific friend who happens to work in the area of protecting electronic privacy. Unspoken but heartbreakingly obvious was "and not to you." That did NOT feel good. Still doesn't.