If you end up using a Google account, you can see all the information they have on you, via the Google Dashboard. It lays out their promises to you, and is a legally enforceable document. You might try reading the Chrome Privacy Notice, for instance. It seems to me that the best way to address your worries is to more fully understand what the Google machine does and does not do. So when Chrome starts right off trying to get me to back up my bookmarks on Google (for example) I think, "There they go again!"ĭespite all that, I've just installed the latest version of Chrome, and I'm going to give it another try. So they might have a few more pernicious motives for collecting data than, say, Microsoft or Mozilla. In your position, I'd just keep on trucking with Firefox and maybe take note of the no-tracking tactics found in the links above.īut I do understand that Google's entire reason for existing is to sell ads. Especially because you're already coming at it from a position of distrust. Since your concern with privacy is largely at odds with Google's business model, it's not entirely realistic that you'll be adequately dissuaded from being concerned with their practices. If they went beyond that and published excepts from my personal email, for example, I'd stop using their services. I'm also not concerned with the details they outlined in the Lifehacker article (the fact that I enjoy beer and BBQ is hardly a state secret, neither is my low income). The fact that they know I'm a male aged 25-34 with an interest Books, the Humanities, Politics, and the City of Ottawa-Gatineau is immaterial to me.
They're more than entitled to my aggregated browsing and purchasing habits in exchange for services that I use on a daily basis. I don't particularly care about my privacy in the way that Google's interested in it.
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