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

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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    macallik@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    True, but w/ a caveat at the bottom:
    
    At the end of the day, you have to remember that Apple devices are essentially a sealed unit. Any claims they make about privacy cannot be proven - they could slip tracking and keyloggers into every device, and unless you build a device from scratch and program it yourself, there’s nothing you can do about it. You have to trust that they won’t do that, and Apple is in a relatively unique position (particularly compared to google and facebook) in that the business isn’t designed to profit from this, so they have no real reason to do so.
    
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