So, just got a notification about google’s new enhanced safe browsing. It says: To help protect your account and data, Enhanced Safe Browsing for your account checks for risky: - URLs - Downloads - Browser extensions - System information - Small sample of pages

How it uses it:

  • Uses information from Enhanced Safe Browsing to improve your security in Google Chrome and Gmail when you’re signed in.
  • Temporarily associates information from Enhanced Safe Browsing with your Google Account when you’re signed in to help protect you across Google apps.

It seems to me as if, whenever they come up with new changes, it’s a double edged sword where they claim everything gets better and safer, while my paranoid mind just sees it as new tricks to get even more data…

  • Papanca@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    Well, i try to use their services as little as possible, but i still have a play store account. And an old gmail address. Degoogling, for me at least, is more of a process, rather than a one time act of abandoning it.

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      1 year ago

      That’s fair, it took me a while to get away from Google as well. Everyone’s journey is different and can take a while to completely move away from them. The only difficulty I had was replacing YouTube.

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        1 year ago

        I replaced youtube with newpipe and freetube or invidious. Though i think freetube still gives data to google, or so i read somewhere. So, i wonder how people replace the play store. Only use apps through f-droid?

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        1 year ago

        The only difficulty I had was replacing YouTube

        How did you go with that? YouTube Premium is the only remaining google service I use, but p2p replacements etc just do not fill the void.

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          1 year ago

          I’ve had some success using piped kavin rocks as a private front end. But I admit I still fall back to YouTube using an Adblock and sponsor block a lot of the time.