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Chromium browsers have been quietly sending user information to Google (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 months ago by lemmee_in@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It probably is intended to indicate that Google's software doesn't have a notice anywhere it's sending this data that a normal human could reasonably find.

There's a lot of 'Data we collect' stuff on sites and software now, and I'm entirely sure I've never seen this on any browser using Google's code for this.

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This also says "chromium browsers", so maybe people who are using some other one than actual Google Chrome have not known and/or not been told of the collection happening.

[–] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 15 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I'm entirely sure it's upstream of Chrome proper, and kinda consolidates my opinion that anything Google is near should be treated as suspect.

[–] sunzu@kbin.run 2 points 3 months ago

Cut it all off!!

well besides spytube... can't really cut that off yet...

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

I would hope Google free Chromium doesn’t but who knows.