[anti-abuse-wg] Google Privacy Abuse

How is this relevant to RIPE?
 - Cynthia

Thu Mar 14 06:05:10 GMT+01:00 2019 ac <ac at main.me>:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 14:28:24 -0700
> "Ronald F. Guilmette"   wrote:
> > ac   you wrote:
> > >Now Google has apparently started saving, tracking and keeping all
> > >https URL's that its chrome/chrome lite products use.
> > And?
> > If you don't like it, vote with your feet and use a different browser.
> > If you have trouble finding any such, try googleing for "browser
> > download".
> > Oops! But I guess that would expose you to mind numbing and
> > tragically horrible snooping on your private parts.
> > Sorry. My bad.
> > Regards,
> > rfg
> > P.S. My apologies to the list for indulging that which should not be
> > indulged.
> >
>
> I see that you are ignorant of what this actually means?
>
> Maybe their are other tech's that are also ignorant of what this really
> means?
>
> HTTPS protocol, by design, is secure and private.
>
> The average consumer expects this to be true.
>
> Google had to actually go and change, in an "under cover" way, the
> entire way and method that HTTPS works. This "change" is being sold as
> a "good thing" to poor people and/or people with low bandwidth and that
> Google is doing a "good thing" by making this change.
>
> I know already: Everything Google is not always what it seems and it is
> a slippery slope. Soon Google will also be storing all Chrome https url's
>
> Now: Here is the REAL bad evil - that is coming to YOU (and Me) in the
> future:
>
> So, Chrome, for its tracking, will be faster.
>
> User will think - ooh, faster = better.
>
> In all probability this is just the very first change in how local
> software manages HTTPS url's and other browsers may be forced to do
> similar EVIL as the user (sheep) experience of Chrome users will be
> faster (the local device will now store the actual media and link it
> with the stored URL)
>
> By our silence and by our acceptance of the method and how Google does
> what it does we allow this business to dominate and control.
>
> One could also argue that not only is this abuse, but it is fraud.
>
> As many things Google is often misrepresented.
>
> It should be made clear to consumers that they are products.
>
> Society should step up and Governments should do much much more
>
> to protect the weak, the stupid and all the sheep.
>
> The Google users do not expect, understand or agree that all the
> https url's they visit will be tracked, used and stored.
>
> And, this is why this is abuse and/or evil.
>
> Andre
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