Google Removes The Mask: How Chrome Is Surveillance Software

In a random act of journalism, The Washington Post ran a piece on how Chrome has ‘become’ the new surveillance software of choice. I contend it never wasn’t, but that’s neither here nor there. When a mainstream outlet is conveying this…well, consider it old news made new news to be consumed by Joe and Joan Normie.

But what’s the purpose behind all this? Most claim advertising and Occam’s Razor would suggest the same, with the article stating:

That’s most visible in the fight over cookies. These code snippets can do some helpful things, like remembering the contents of your shopping cart. But now many cookies belong to data companies, which use them to tag your browser so they can follow your path like crumbs in the proverbial forest.

That said, those ‘snippets’ are outside of your control and may contain lots more data beyond what you might realize, including multiple exploits of your devices. But furthermore, why does anyone have a right to spy on you in the first place?

In an era where the power placed in the hands of Google at a minimum supplements government entities tasked with domestic surveillance, those deemed public enemies become prime targets at a minimum and even plan on swaying an election. Given the ostensible leftist bias and deplatforming which will no doubt continue, you should take every chance at protection possible. Either way, the State intends to use these tools, inch by inch, to create a social credit system not unlike that of China.

The article suggests Firefox as an alternative, and at a basic level, they’re ok. Just make sure to disable the google plugin in the searchbar- Duck Duck Go is a good option. If you’re working mobile,  check out Orbot for Android (which is an offshoot of TOR) and SnowHaze for IOS. And with everything, use a VPN.

 

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  1. Bryce Sharper June 27, 2019 at 10:16

    I use the Brave browser.

    • Kilo June 30, 2019 at 09:33

      Don.t. It is based on chromium and still sends data to google. Run it through Wireshark and see for yourself. Folks, there is much more to this than ‘just’ choosing a browser and using it via a VPN and/or TOR. Free isn’t necessarily bad. Look at the overall business model. Wireshark is free and it rats everyone out equally…google, microsoft, facebook, all of them. It is truly equal opportunity. Several add-ons are recommended below (HTTPS Everywhere, uBlock Origin, etc.) which are all both good and bad. Yes, they block some stuff, but they also highlight you with a fingerprint. EFF has this to test: https://panopticlick.eff.org/. Are there ways around all of this? Sure. It is just a matter of convenience vs security/privacy/anonymity. As with everything, it is best addressed across a spectrum of responses instead of a black/white or all/nothing approach. Just my two cents

  2. mike June 27, 2019 at 11:01

    What about a browser that uses the chrome open source base like Brave Browser? Brave Browser seems to be more security related and blocks a bunch of stuff normally.

    • NC Scout June 27, 2019 at 13:06

      I use Brave currently. It’s ok, and that’s about all I can really say for it.

      • Devin S June 27, 2019 at 18:24

        Brave is OK, but leaves a lot to be desired and I feel it is too restrictive to the point of being annoying and in some cases unusable. I know all the the jargon and how to get really advanced with it, but I would rather have more control over my browser. Besides, you aren’t hiding that much, via just a browser. The ultimate method to surfing is using a good foreign VPN service like NordVPN and using Tor as your browser for everything if you care that much. Honestly, I kind of gave up trying to hide so much online, if you’re worried about “them” then they already know everything about you. Most people are worth monitoring and they don’t have the resources to monitor us all in every way, I’ve seen the math and requirements, they sure do try though. I at least try to make it annoying for them, but if I wanted to hide I would be taking some crazy steps. At least at this point in time I don’t see much point… Disconnect, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, and uBloc Origin are good enough.

        • NC Scout June 27, 2019 at 19:28

          Those are my thoughts on Brave as well. Better than nothing, but not a one-stop.

    • SneakyBaztard June 28, 2019 at 14:30

      That’s what I use on all my devices. On windows computers, I run brave with the Privacy Badger addon/extension, which allows more granularity with regards to blocking. Facebook embeds cookies all over the place also. Using a paid VPN on everything as well is a given. Paired with burner emails from Blur (https://dnt.abine.com) and credit cards from privacy.com and the advertisers and data harvesters are pretty much blind to you.

  3. johnymac June 27, 2019 at 17:09

    I hate few things in this world however Google is one of them.

    Like others, I use Brave and as a browser I use Duck Duck go. I have used Thor in the past too however it seems slow to me. As a side feature in Brave, they offer Thor through their server.

    James O’keefe of Project Veritas had a video on YouTube where he recorded Jen Gennai of Google admitting that Google, through the manipulation of algorithms, will not be caught flat footed as they were in the 2016 presidential election, in 2020. In essence Google will do their part to defeat Trump.

    Interestingly, O’Keefe’s video has been pulled from YouTube. Mmmm? \”/

    Peace

  4. Anonymous June 27, 2019 at 17:26

    5

  5. Devin S June 27, 2019 at 17:42

    I’ve been telling people this for years, ALL Google products or any other “free to use” service use you to make money via advertising and selling info to governments. Remember to take this into account on your phone as well. Currently there are SOME legal restrictions for corps to collect info about you from your phone, but that has been eroding over the years. I worked for one of the biggest collectors of info out that before they got bought out by Oracle, I learned about the business there. Firefox is a much better browser, but they have also been caught collecting info, I use it for my primary browser with several add-ons to cut down on data gathering. Also I only use DuckDuckGo for my search engine, they utilize several search engines without passing or storing any information, StartPage is another one, but their search results tend to suck. Protonmail is the best alternative email service. Checkout this site for top notch updated info. https://www.privacytools.io/

    • Devin S June 27, 2019 at 17:43

      I will add that you must pay for privacy, just like Liberty is comes with greater responsibility, so does privacy online. I’m preaching to myself on this, that’s for sure, it’s so easy and cheap (in some ways) to be lazy. :-D

  6. vyt1az June 29, 2019 at 16:11

    I’m late to the party but I of course feel obligated to chime in. :-P

    As mentioned Brave is OK. It doesn’t have the quality of anything based off of newer versions of Firefox, both for privacy or performance. See this accidental “feature” it inherited from Chrome:
    https://community.brave.com/t/why-is-brave-issuing-upnp-discovery-requests/46500

    Firefox has made massive strides in terms of removing the likelihood of certain bugs and greatly improving performance by re-writing parts in the Rust language. Ever since v57 I can have 100+ (yes really) of tabs open and it handles that far better than any Chrome-based browser.

    One good strategy is to have a privacy anonymity continuum: Brave > Firefox > Tor (with Javascript turned off until you intentionally whitelisting trusted sources).

    Almost everything you do should be over a VPN and for partisan party planning, either a secondary tunneled VPN or Tor. Virtual machines are also helpful but I don’t want to bore people.

    • James June 30, 2019 at 09:36

      Vyt,you are hardly boring people,I and many others learn from others posts,so,please bore away or links for folks who are looking to be bored! I admit the credit card post sneaky has me looking into privacy .com and other sites,while,doing to best of ability due diligence.

      • NC Scout June 30, 2019 at 10:16

        I’d actually like to see a post on it. I know you know your stuff Vyt.

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