It is what it is
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Ah, good find. I just assumed it would have been explicit about it from the start
Yeah, one would have hoped that’d be the case - but apparently not.
I just remembered reading this a while back (start of last year, it seems?), and it honestly felt like a tacit admission of wrong-doing - so they’re likely going to be facing an uphill battle, or at least are expecting one.
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Firefox's main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google (via the URL field) is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.
changed the search engine in Firefox
Which... takes maximum 1min to do.
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Or buying pornography.
Or pornographic gifts.
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
Brave is also Chromium.
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Pornhub headquarters is located at 21620 N 19th Ave, Phoenix, Arizona 85027
I can't find incognito mode for Uber.
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I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
Librewolf
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Go to the website directly! Porn hub is not hard to spell! I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
I spell it all the time even using no fingers at all!
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changed the search engine in Firefox
Which... takes maximum 1min to do.
or default in any of the forks!
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hey before they do that, can i look through their files on me? theres some porn i havent been able to refind anywhere
Wouldn't that be amazing! I have single frames of good videos stuck in my head that I can never find again.
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That was actually their lawyer's argument, that "incognito mode" being private was just something people assumed and ran with, not their fault.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]I mean, they called it "Incognito".
Incognito: having one's true identity concealed
If it doesn't conceal your identity, then that's pretty clearly misleading. They're not selling to experts, the users of this are laypeople. It's like if you sold a "waterproof phone" and the packaging all made it look like it could withstand water, but then when it got wet it broke and you were like "people just assumed it was waterproof, it's not our fault".
Sure experts could tell, and enthusiasts would read the expert opinions on it, but that's not something you should expect of laypeople considering how it is presented. -
I haven't used Chrome in years. Brave and firefox, that's my crowd.
same i use Librewolf nowadays
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Firefox's main funding was from Google being their default search engine. Which of course means anything searched in Google (via the URL field) is recorded to the external IP address logs. So unless you are going directly to the website or changed the search engine in Firefox, yes Google was recording said information (or at least compiling the numbers for data analytics) to use for advertising purposes.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Firefox’s main funding was
was ? I think it still is
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It’s Google. If you are shocked by this, you deserve to be tracked.
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Brave is also Chromium.
Firefox is also a web browser.
Oh sorry, I thought we were making meaningless comparisons.
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Things do the opposite of what their name says they do. We've been in 1984/F451 bizarro world for a while, now.
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Firefox is also a web browser.
Oh sorry, I thought we were making meaningless comparisons.
So even though Brave is made on a Google product, Google doesn't get the data? Is that what you're saying? Because Google is such an honest company, sure they have no interest in the data of other browser instances made with their platform. Right?
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It’s Google. If you are shocked by this, you deserve to be tracked.
No, not really. There are low bars; this isn't one of them. This is not something I expect average people who aren't into technology to anticipate. Nerds like me, yeah. But not the public. Though we're getting to that point.
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It’s Google. If you are shocked by this, you deserve to be tracked.
Putting the burden on users is a very Google thing to do, my dude.
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It’s Google. If you are shocked by this, you deserve to be tracked.
That's called victim blaming.
But yeah. I really hope people stop using Google products. Google is evil.
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So even though Brave is made on a Google product, Google doesn't get the data? Is that what you're saying? Because Google is such an honest company, sure they have no interest in the data of other browser instances made with their platform. Right?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Yes. That is in fact what I'm saying. Brave has built in blockers for ads, trackers, and cookies. It has a built-in VPN. It has a built-in Tor browser. It's default search engine is DDG instead of Google. Considering Firefox defaults to Google for searches, you're likely giving more data to Google through Firefox than you would using Brave.
