![]() UMatrix is uBlock Origin (uBO) with 2 differences:Ģ) A more powerful interface, as _underfl0w_ describes at But make no mistake, there is a clear benefit to Google here. To many, using Google fonts is considered a fair exchange (especially given that their data is anonymized) and I think that's a perfectly reasonable position. I just think it's common sense that Google expects some sort of ROI here. Is there any evidence whatsoever that Google built this service out of the goodness of their hearts, and have no intent of using it to gain any sort of competitive advantage?Īnd if you do believe that, is there any evidence that Google will continue to spend millions of dollars supporting a service that gives them zero benefit? What does their track record say about that?įor the record, I'm not anti-Google, nor ultra privacy focused. Google claims to not associate the data with particular users (it's anonymized), but there's nothing to stop it from using the data to know how popular certain sites or pages are, what region(s) visitors are coming from, and what user agents (browsers) are being used. ![]() I'm glad to see more people concluding this, nonetheless.) but I get there via an entirely different argument. (I do firmly agree that the very existence of Google is anti-democratic, though. Would it be better to live in a world where hard problems don't get possible solutions at all, where no one feels like they have choices taken away from them because the choices were never given them in the first place? ![]() We can complain all we want about how Google should give people the option to choose whether they want hard site isolation or not, but if it weren't for Google's investment in Chrome, we wouldn't even think of the option. ![]() Keep in mind that Chrome basically pioneered the concept of doing OS-level sandboxing between websites. There are clear downsides (described in this thread) to all the possible options, and even the option of letting people choose between bad options doesn't actually make people's lives better at the end of the day. No, the nature of the problem is that Google (and big government, in its own ways) is trying to solve hard problems with no good solution. ![]()
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