Google has rolled out "Privacy Sandbox," a Chrome feature first announced back in 2019 that, among other things, exchanges third-party cookies—the most common form of tracking technology—for what the company is now calling "Topics." Topics is a response to pushback against Google’s proposed...
    • naut@infosec.pubOP
      201·
      1 year ago

      that is the best advice, but some are unwilling to change so at least give them some protection

      • cod@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        I like this line of thinking and hope we get more of it. Feels like a lot of people on this community are of the mindset that you have to either go all the way with online privacy or not at all. Going all in isn’t practical for the average individual and can scare people off. It’s just not worth it for a lot of people in their minds. Most people probably like the idea of privacy but aren’t willing to change phones and operating systems, use a completely different set of services, all that. I think we should focus on trying to help someone with what they’ve got rather than telling them they have to completely change the way they operate online. Give a list of settings to tweak, suggest an ad blocker, suggest alternative services but don’t make it sound mandatory, and don’t berate someone for using an iPhone or watching YouTube for example. Acting like that will probably scare people away and make them not want to interact with the community which would be a shame. It would also probably lead to them continuing to do mad online habits because they left before they could get educated. I think it’s about balance. Being slightly less anonymous online might be worth it if it means a considerably smoother experience, for the average person

  • necrobius@lemm.ee
    231·
    1 year ago

    If you don’t want Google to see what you’re doing then don’t use Google products

    • JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      To do that literally is actually quite hard if not impossible for most people. A deGoogled mobile device that is functional - that is a quite a technical challenge.

      However, ditching Chrome is obviously low-hanging fruit. Drives me crazy that so many people can’t see the obvious problem of having a web where the client and the server belong to the same company.

      • felbane@lemmy.ml
        3·
        1 year ago

        Ironically, if you buy a Google phone (Pixel 6 or later) you can load GrapheneOS and avoid the Google ecosystem entirely.

      • necrobius@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        For most people looking for a phone, it’s the choice of which company you want to give your data too. But there are very obvious options when it comes to browsers.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
      41·
      1 year ago

      Mfers be like hey look at this starving bear, I’m going to cuddle it but take precautions like wrap my arms up in toilet paper!

      When will people realize none of those settings mean shit because there’s no way to verify they actually do what they say they do.

      And Google has zero credibility just like every megacorp.

      If you use any product designed by Google, it’s raping you for every bit of data it can and no amount of “hey but I turned off targeted ads” is making a single iota of difference.

  • fox@beehaw.org
    5·
    1 year ago

    Is there a way Google Workspace admins can turn it off for all their users?