A Lemmy community dedicated to Google products and everything Google.
Rules
- Keep it Google.
- Keep it SFW.
I'm trying to understand why I care that websites know what cpu I have. Why do I care? Why is this some mass invasion of privacy?
Fingerprinting, it allows Google to track exactly who you are across the web. Anything you look at or search for, Google can find out it's you basically.
So yes, massive invasion of privacy.
If only there was an alternative browser, maybe Google wouldn't act like a monopoly.
That would be fire!
Would need some foxy people to develop though.
Some people would rather weasel out in ice
Wait. Even Chromium browser? I would've thought it was somewhat degoogle enough not to have these.
Google has pretty firm control over the Chromium code base, so not much reason for them to degoogle it. Presumably the worst stuff is not publicized to avoid PR disasters, but just "Google does evil" is hardly a news story.
Ungoogled-chromium has a decent list of things they consider degoogle-worthy: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/README.md#feature-overview
Vivaldi reasoning for not disabling this extension is that non techy user(s) would be suprised, if Google Meet didn't work the same way it did on Chrome. They do offer a way to disable if this extension.
I can't find the mastodon post right now.