Google is launching more and more "privacy" products. But do these really benefit the privacy of users?

Google started out with a “don’t be evil” motto when it launched its first product, Google Search. Today, Google is a different company. It has created numerous products and abandoned a lot.

    • Knusper@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Well, with that proxying feature, I mostly meant that they’re not doing it for the privacy, but rather for those other benefits.
      Much like with 8.8.8.8 for DNS and AMP for the server-side, this feature locks down the client-side, ensuring that internet traffic goes over their infrastructure.

      Yes, user privacy is short-term somewhat improved, because their competitors can’t track you quite as easily anymore, but if they truly cared about improving privacy/security, there would be so many much lower hanging fruits they could pick, like end-to-end-encryption for Chrome Sync by default. They don’t pick those, because it would impact their own ability to invade user privacy.