| ▲ | foobarbecue 4 hours ago |
| Holy crap I hope that's not true. I've also had unguessable pages indexed, though, and don't have an explanation. |
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| ▲ | FabCH 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| It’s absolutely true. It is a documented fact. It was discovered and entered into public record during the DOJ antitrust investigation into Google Chrome. They call the signal „popularity“ and it is a successor of the Google Toolbar signal. https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-wins-signi... |
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| ▲ | NuclearPM 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | > „popularity“ Why are you using weird quotes? | | |
| ▲ | evilduck 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | I'll take a wild guess and assume they are of a German or Polish language background. Wait 'til you encounter a French person who accidentally uses guillemets if you want one even «weirder». | | |
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| ▲ | chasd00 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| This is why Chrome begs you to login constantly and will do it automatically when you login to Gmail through Chrome. Everything you do in the browser (bookmarks, settings, address bar) is data about you sent to Adsense. No need for cookies when you control the browser and know who is using it. Edit: also private browsing isn’t exactly private when you’re logged in to the browser. |
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| ▲ | nicce 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Something worth inspecting further. We know that Chrome stores and sends the browsing history but this is an interesting vector. |
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| ▲ | DANmode 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | I’d be more surprised if they weren’t capturing this information. Especially if you have autocomplete-while-searching type of features on. | | |
| ▲ | EGreg 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome? They control the entire browser surface, technically they can know everything, even TLS and E2E encrypted data, that they silently phone home… If you think this is silly, consider that Microsoft Recall had been observing everything on people’s entire SCREENS and phoning home much of it. That is how a guy was caught recently: https://x.com/t3chfalcon/status/2074134314145489195 And it is actually much worse than even that: https://community.qbix.com/t/increasing-state-of-surveillanc... | | |
| ▲ | pixl97 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | >Why don’t they also capture information you enter into forms on Chrome? For some reason people are downvoting you, but yea, one day we'll likely see a lawsuit where they do exactly that. | | |
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| ▲ | inigyou 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There's no reason to think it isn't true. It matches every pattern of behavior observed from every tech company. |
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| ▲ | EGreg 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | Why don’t they also read your gmail and get your bank passwords? And maybe have access to EVERY site actually, with “forgot password” type stuff in addition to providing oauth tokens… | | |
| ▲ | dbdr 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | " Microsoft is scanning the inside of password-protected zip files for malware" https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/05/micro... | |
| ▲ | pjc50 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The tools in gmail in some sense "read" all your mail in order to classify spam and do things like calendar integration. The extent to which they do other things with the information is .. unclear. | |
| ▲ | inigyou 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Because your bank doesn't send your password to your Gmail because if they did they know Google would read it. | |
| ▲ | applfanboysbgon 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | > Why don’t they also read your gmail Boy do I have news for you. | | |
| ▲ | saghm 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Yeah, I thought it was pretty obvious that is literally the whole reason that Gmail even exists |
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| ▲ | jacekm 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Chrome sends home the urls you visit together with the page performance data (and probably more). That's how they build Chrome User Experience Report (CrUX) for the most popular sites: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux |
