Comment on Google Chrome to soon get a new ‘IP protection’ feature: Here’s what it does

db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That give google access to all the traffic statistics for users of chrome, not just those going via google. That’s valuable marketing data. They also have made sure that nobody else can get that data - they have to buy it from google as they become the sole source of it.

  That’s why they want to do it… nothing to do with ‘privacy’.

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  • sic_semper_tyrannis@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sounds like what Apple’s been doing recently

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    • macallik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      This post seemed to put things in context a bit better:
      https://reddit.com/r/apple/comments/xo8ha0/_/iq5e40h/?context=1

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      • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That link makes it seem like Apple can’t read what you’re doing, so it’s different from Google.

        This is where Private Relay comes in. When enabled, the addresses you visit are encrypted on your device, and then handed to Apple (who can’t read it - think of it as handing a sealed envelope to a letter carrier). Apple then passes these onto Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 DNS. Cloudflare only sees that they came from Apple, so they have no idea who the actual person is. In this sense, only Apple knows who you are, and only Cloudflare knows what website you visited, so it’s more private (unless both companies collude to match up the data). The technical term for this is Oblivious DNS over HTTPS.

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