Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish

db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• AFreeLarryHoover@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  My man thought he was permanently erasing it from history.

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  • almar_quigley@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Next you’ll tell me cognito mode isn’t keeping my browsing completely private! /s

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    • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How can my workplace admin block Pornhub even when I’m using private mode? He shouldn’t even be allowed to see what I do privately!

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      • Kushan@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I mean, this is mostly borne from a fundamental misunderstanding of what “Private Browsing” mode is and was meant to be.

        When you open an incognito tab on Chrome, it literally says “Now you can browse privately, and other people who use this device won’t see your activity.”

        It also says

        Your activity might still be visible to:

        • Websites that you visit
        • Your employer or school
        • Your Internet service provider

        Fuck using Chrome and I’m not defending Google at all here, but they never once claimed Incognito was anything more than it was.

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    • troistigrestristes@lemmy.eco.br ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the incognito mode is not keeping your browsing private, imagine the cognitive mode!

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• parpol@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think op meant he requests google to delete the history through the account settings, which they are required to comply with.

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  • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Surely they’ll actually comply, not be caught in an audit years down the line and given a friendly “Now now, we talked about this: don’t get caught breaking the law again!” slap on the wrist for failing to delete and instead further monetising that data?

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    • lemming741@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This isn’t some trivial information like your precise location history, this is serious.

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    • dm_me_your_feet@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Under GPDR and DMA, there would be real consequences. Like “being broken up or cease to exist” magnitude of consequences. Why would they risk it for the 1% of users who actually care and set their privacy settings accordingly?

      Google doesnt care about you or anyones personal data. They care about the amount they collect. If the most privacy-aware users wrestle back some data and have it deleted, so be it. Google couldnt care less. Users are like cattle to them, as long as the general “data harvest rate” they wont investigate the odd one out.

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      • luciferofastora@lemmy.zip ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Forgive me for being cynical about the odds of those consequences actually being enacted. Giving the courts a weapon for getting such companies in line is one thing, getting the judges to actually fire it another.

        A law is only ever as good as its enforcement.

        If I’m wrong, of course, I’ll be glad to learn that. I’ve just run out of optimism halfway through adolescence.

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• caesar_salad83@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  doesn’t even matter. what matters is the meta data. if the data from the list say you like science videos with emphasis on electrical engineering, star wars podcasts and mmorpg let’s plays - does that data go away apon history deletion. what about meta-meta data. if the meta data puts you on group X that receive content Y, does that go away apon history deletion. and what kind of integration does that get with the rest of the google knowledge about you…

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I doubt turning off history truly does what it says either though. I think it was more about avoiding the shitty algo recc’s that try to turn everyone’s dad and uncle into a far right extremist.

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