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gromlok · 2010-11-04 03:36:06

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Gusar · 2010-11-04 10:01:24

Not even Chrome has any privacy issues (the RLZ parameter, the only difference between Chrome and Chromium, can't be used to track you). It's all paranoia. Just deactivate some stuff in the options ('Privacy' section in the 'Under The Hood' tab) and that's that.

Oh, and just for the fun of it: Google already knows everything about you, no matter what browser you use. The only way to prevent that is not go online.

litemotiv · 2010-11-04 10:23:05

If you're worried about privacy you can also install the Iron build.

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wonder · 2010-11-04 10:29:37

litemotiv wrote:

If you're worried about privacy you can also install the Iron build.

iron is the most stupid suggestion ever. You, as user, don't have any clue about what is in this binary, made my some unknown guy from the internet. He doesn't have an open development process, no bug reports, no sources and if you find some sources, they are on rapidshare. You, as user, are deceived and enter in trap, mostly because of "good" publicity.

Chromium is not as bad as firefox, it has the same "tracking" and privacy "issues" as firefox.

If you, as user, don't have any issues with firefox, then chromium is perfect for you

litemotiv · 2010-11-04 10:35:33

wonder wrote:

iron is the most stupid suggestion ever.

Easy there cowboy..

You, as user, don't have any clue about what is in this binary, made my some unknown guy from the internet. He doesn't have an open development process, no bug reports, no sources and if you find some sources, they are on rapidshare. You, as user, are deceived and enter in trap, mostly because of "good" publicity.

Fair points, i don't use it myself so i don't have an opinion on it. I'm merely pointing it out as an alternative, the fact that it's a closed binary doesn't say anything in this context.

z0id · 2010-11-04 11:29:08

If you are worried about privacy with google change your default search engine... and opt out of the interest-based advertising... and host your own email server... and ditch social sites... and navigate with tor...

On a more serious note, I use Chromium with DuckDuckGo.

synthead · 2010-11-04 13:21:04

litemotiv wrote:

wonder wrote:
iron is the most stupid suggestion ever.
Easy there cowboy..
You, as user, don't have any clue about what is in this binary, made my some unknown guy from the internet. He doesn't have an open development process, no bug reports, no sources and if you find some sources, they are on rapidshare. You, as user, are deceived and enter in trap, mostly because of "good" publicity.
Fair points, i don't use it myself so i don't have an opinion on it. I'm merely pointing it out as an alternative, the fact that it's a closed binary doesn't say anything in this context.

Well, he is holding some very valid points. Generally speaking, running binaries from unknown sources is a violation of your privacy and freedom 100% of the time. It is the same reason why 90% of the people on this board is so reluctant about Windows, which is an ultimate form of this topic. If the Iron guy wrote a tidbit of code that captures all your passwords and sends them off to his email, how are you to know? You could capture packets all day and blacklist everything but good traffic one-by-one, but then it's not even totally secure on this regard. Any pro-binary argument you push, however, is always 100% irrelevant on the conversation that you are removing your freedom. Look up some of the things Richard Stallman has to say. He's a freedom campaigner for the GNU/Linux foundation and the father of the GNU and GPL.

oops · 2010-11-04 14:32:16

Best to avoid Iron:

http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/ … /iron.html

litemotiv · 2010-11-04 14:57:32

synthead wrote:

Well, he is holding some very valid points. Generally speaking, running binaries from unknown sources is a violation of your privacy and freedom 100% of the time. It is the same reason why 90% of the people on this board is so reluctant about Windows, which is an ultimate form of this topic. If the Iron guy wrote a tidbit of code that captures all your passwords and sends them off to his email, how are you to know? You could capture packets all day and blacklist everything but good traffic one-by-one, but then it's not even totally secure on this regard. Any pro-binary argument you push, however, is always 100% irrelevant on the conversation that you are removing your freedom. Look up some of the things Richard Stallman has to say. He's a freedom campaigner for the GNU/Linux foundation and the father of the GNU and GPL.

Agreed. From a privacy standpoint however, which was the original question, a binary says nothing until you are certain that it is sending unauthorized information. That you indeed would have to monitor to find out.

oops wrote:

Best to avoid Iron:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/ … /iron.html

Ok Iron is off the list.

imag1narynumber · 2010-11-04 18:40:15

I stick with Firefox, since I can use things like OptimizeGoogle and Ghostery, so that Google and the like DON'T know everything about me.

R00KIE · 2010-11-05 22:02:47

@imag1narynumber
Well ... you are using google to provide search results, how don't they know everything about you?
To add to the party you get links to Yahoo, Ask, MSN and others (from OptimizeGoogle, I haven't checked it out though) so you are letting more people know about what you do

More on the subject, like others have said just disable stuff like suggestions for navigation errors and the search suggestion service. Chromium is not worse or better than firefox when it comes to privacy, you're online so whatever you do leaves traces, the most you can do is not use some "features" that can give away more data than you are willing to give and use the good old common sense

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eduardo.eae · 2010-11-06 00:01:27

If you don't want to be followed by google when you do a search use Scroogle
They even have a ssl version Here

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