How do Google Employees sleep at night?
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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I'm using a VPN right now and Google keeps doing the captcha request thing and loops as if it's broken. Never had this problem before.
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Non-goals [...] Enforce or interfere with browser functionality, including plugins and extensions. [...]
But guys they gave their pinky promise it's totally fine
let's just allow them to irreversibly make this change so that there is nothing preventing them from applying this totally Non-Goals in the future what could happen
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Challenges and threats to address
[...] Tracking users’ browser history User agents will not provide any browsing information to attesters when requesting a token. We are researching an issuer-attester split that prevents the attester from tracking users at scale, while allowing for a limited number of attestations to be inspected for debugging—with transparency reporting and auditability [...]
Cross-site tracking
While attestation tokens will not include information to identify unique users, the attestation tokens themselves could enable cross-site tracking if they are re-used between sites. For example, two colluding sites could work out that the same user visited their sites if a token contains any unique cryptographic keys and was shared between their sites.
Good to see where your priorities lie in terms of user protection when deciding to launch this into conversation. Dude idk we'll fix it later don't worry bro
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Well I won't visit a site that is full of ads now without an ad blocker, so why would the fact that o can't block the ads change my mind. As soon as a site blocks content for having an ad blocker or immediately starts popping up tons of stuff that's nearly impossible to close, I leave.
Companies like google should really not have so much power. I have stopped using chrome 1 year ago, and i am thinking about switching to a browser that doesn´t use chromium.
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why are they trying to restrict and control the internet? on the plus side I guess I'll go outside more, touch grass, forget this crap exists and enjoy other facets of life. It's just sad to see it be transformed into this pile of crap.
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That also destroys the openess of the design. They already DRMed up the media, why the whole page? It will kill transparency completely
Before everyone starts complaining, remember:
This is for the ads. There are millions of starving ads on the internet right now. For just a click and load a day on every ad you see you too can help a billion dollar company survive.
Google proving why it removed its old motto "Don't be evil."
"Please click on all the crosswalks before you can enter this site"
This is why people pirate things.
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Makes me want to donate to Firefox, not the Mozilla Foundation. To Firefox.
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Fuck Google
What a bunch of scumbags.