Sedalia Dave Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch. Something I already knew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colorado Coffinmaker Posted June 22, 2019 Share Posted June 22, 2019 HUMMMMM. Think MAC!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.D. Daily Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 On 6/21/2019 at 6:40 PM, Sedalia Dave said: Review: Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch. Something I already knew. I switched to DuckDuckGo a couple of years ago when they fired engineer James Denmore for questioning the Co's political & social philosophies on the Co's internal discussion forum. I immediately noticed that all the popup adds disappeared. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 24, 2019 Share Posted June 24, 2019 I am switching over to DuckDuckGo as well. I am sick of Google's BS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Trampas, SASS # 55781 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I have google chrome also, I seen where you can add duckduckgo to chrome, is that what you did and just all by itself All for now JD Trampas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 46 minutes ago, JD Trampas, SASS # 55781 said: I have google chrome also, I seen where you can add duckduckgo to chrome, is that what you did and just all by itself All for now JD Trampas That only solves a small part of the problem The Chrome browser is still collecting huge amounts of personal data in the background. Mozila Firefox has much better privacy settings by default. . If you want better online privacy switch to Firefox and use DuckDuckGo as the search engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mad Dog Jack, SASS #77862 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 I have avoided Chrome like the plague, I use Firefox and Duckduckgo. I read that article last night, it reinforced my opinion of what Google has become... a very dangerous company. I regret any support I have given them over the years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Go West Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 This came up a bit ago. I generally use Brave as a browser with DuckDuckGo as the search engine. Brave was developed by engineers that left Mozilla (builders of Firefox and Thunderbird) if I remember correctly. Brave has built in ad blockers that some sites do not like, but if I really want to go to those few, I will switch to Firefox and still use DuckDuckGo. Google, and Facebook among other companies are a threat to freedom and specifically, the upcoming election. I'm also very concerned with my personal data and don't like the way they are mining data and exploiting their customers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 Tired of all the popup ads in Google among other things. How do I get rid of it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrel Cody Posted June 25, 2019 Share Posted June 25, 2019 2 minutes ago, Yellowhouse Sam # 25171 said: Tired of all the popup ads in Google among other things. How do I get rid of it? https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ then https://www.wikihow.com/Uninstall-Google-Chrome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted June 25, 2019 Author Share Posted June 25, 2019 7 hours ago, Tyrel Cody said: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ then https://www.wikihow.com/Uninstall-Google-Chrome +10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted June 26, 2019 Share Posted June 26, 2019 I did an experiment a while back with Google and Google Chrome. I did this for many days. I did searches on guns and motorcycles one day. The next I did searches on issues regarding race equity, civil rights and various subjects regarding social consciousness. The next day it was back to guns and motorcycles and so on. Within a few days all of the news feeds that Google “selects for you” regarding guns and motorcycles were negative articles about motorcycles and guns. As if someone or an algorithm had determined I was a candidate for manipulation. The motorcycle articles were solely about crashes and deaths on bikes. The firearm articles were very pro gun control and stories about law breakers and killers using guns. Typically, before the test, I would see a few negative articles, believe it or not, more negative articles regarding motorcycle crashes and injuries vs negative articles about guns. After my back and forth test it was as if someone turned on a leftist spigot of propaganda. Now here’s the really funny part. I stopped using Google for a week, except for some tool searches for work. Yesterday and today I went back on Google and I had a dozen news feeds. 10 were what I consider positive towards guns. No motorcycle articles at all 1 was about Milwaukee tools, which I had been researching at work but the one that really surprised me was this news feed: https://www.projectveritas.com/video/insider-blows-whistle-exec-reveals-google-plan-to-prevent-trump-situation-in-2020-on-hidden-cam/ A story about Google working to manipulate the next presidential election. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sgt. C.J. Sabre, SASS #46770 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 ust where do these ads and news feeds come from? I don't get any of those. But I have adblocker, adblock plus, and adskiller, too. No ads anywhere, not even you tube. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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