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Ok… They do seem to be fear mongering a bit.
By their own evidence it only collects browser plugins for chromium based browsers. There forward implies it scans your entire PC.
As always stop using chromium based browsers to avoid this.
Firefox based browsers also have persistent IDs for addons, does Firefox do something different to stop this?
in a Chrome-based browser
Anyone who uses anything that has ever been touched by Google is a fucking moron and deserves what they get.
It’s pretty impossible to exist in society without a few concessions. Like doing official or work stuff requires you to use Google products.
If your work forces you to use Google, use Google for work on your work machine. Do only work on your work machine. If they want their data stolen, that’s on them.
Me: No Google at all. No Google account. Not having a problem at all. I’ve been a software developer for 23 years.
Also, you wouldn’t be using LinkedIn on a work machine. Unless you want to get fired.
I do it all the time. All my coworkers are in it. Nobody cares.
Set your profile to “looking for work” and lmk how that goes.
Well, the only time I did that, I was at risk with funding and it wasn’t a secret. Nobody was pissed.
Okay but not everyone is as tech savvy. I wouldn’t call everyone a moron just because they don’t have the same skillset as you.
Stop using Google. Now you have the same skill set.
They’ve spent an ungodly amount of money to make sure they have a us in a monopoly with manufactured consent at that point its no longer a personal responsibility problem.
Excuses. I don’t use them and I don’t have trouble. Stop using them.
I’m using it to finish deleting every single email. It takes forever and ever and ever. It’s awful. I’m almost done y’all. I’ll be completely off google, FB, Amazon, etc., but then need to figure out how to deal with family devices (smart TV with YouTube, etc). It’s been a long road for the google email.
Don’t bother deleting the emails one by one. They don’t actually “delete” as in the data is gone from Google. Just stop using it in the future.
I exported most of my emails and am just changing my accounts over to a spam email and deleting a ton of accounts. It’s a good exercise to recall tye million accounts you have so you can request data deletion and get rid of them.
