39 points

Ok but its to late they’ve already sold it and used it.

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Oh great they get to collect and make money off of “anonymous technical data” for years, and their punishment for doing all that is to delete the data, and swear they won’t collect anymore of it for the next few years??

They already made their money off of people’s data! This isn’t a meaningful punishment, hell it’s barely a slap on the wrist.

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It’s not even a slap on the wrist, it’s just saying “don’t do this anymore”, but they freakin will man

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That’s not how privacy works.

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Google: We promise, bro. We swear to delete it bro. No bro, you can’t check whether we have actually deleted it. Dude just trust me bro.

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Bro we promise bro, we’re deleting the data - We know bro, you thought we didn’t collect it but bro we’re deleting it we promise now we’re cool bro just keep using it bro we don’t collect more data bro we promise

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Or, hear me out, maybe switch to Firefox ?

When caring about the privacy of your data, using a software made by the biggest data collector might be a bad idea…

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Or better yet, Mullvad browser. It’s basically Tor browser without Tor.

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16 points

So just a browser ?

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“We’re sorry we got caught. We’ll delete what we shouldn’t possess.”

Sounds like accountability.

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