Privacy , Google all around help please

LightKnow

Hi everyone, I had some questions,
With these new privacy policy changes and security changes coming, is chrome and Google pixel gonna become less reliable? Am I more likely to be at risk with new extension coming etc, do I drop chrome ? Any help or advise please because I deal with vulnerable people last thing I want is to be at some risk with technical issues

Thank you 

RumRat

The new policies are because of new privacy laws passed in California and will increase privacy in the State and the US as a whole.
Google is publishing a new app for Chrome that increases privacy as per the new law by allowing you to block Google analytics from gathering your information.
The subsequent new policies that you are referring to are just a simplification of what already exists and a tightening up of some bits....Everything will work just as it does now and you don't have to worry.
More of a concern Google has moved all it's UK accounts from Irish to US servers due to the uncertainty of Brexit, which will be bad if the UK does not keep GDPR rules, but only a moron would ditch those.....Oh Dear!.....You will be agreeing to the shift within the new policy.

Frozen_up_north

If you read the small print in the Google T&Cs, you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts, sell the info to marketing companies and basically collect everything they can about you, your locations and anything else you share with them.

For web searching I use DuckDuckGo and for any personal email, I use ProtonMail. I don’t use Google Maps, nor do I use an Android phone.

J_B

Frozen_up_north said:

................you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts

Can you tell me where these adverts appear please?

LightKnow

So is chrome 80 not as bad as well? So many sites are writing articles like some crazy poop is about go down, which cause disaster for users etc etc 
@RumRat I understand what you mean, not like half what they bring forward is new, it's all been going on for years but I just got little confused if they were about to implement something new to the system 

wongataa

J_B said:

Frozen_up_north said:

................you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts

Can you tell me where these adverts appear please?

Google search page.  Any website that uses Adsense as their advertisement provider.  Adsense is owned by Google.

Frozen_up_north

J_B said:

Frozen_up_north said:

................you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts

Can you tell me where these adverts appear please?

Have you not searched for something obscure, then visited a local newspaper web site, only to find adverts for the item you searched for? Which company do you think is behind that?

onomatopoeia99

Frozen_up_north said:

J_B said:

Frozen_up_north said:

................you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts

Can you tell me where these adverts appear please?

Have you not searched for something obscure, then visited a local newspaper web site, only to find adverts for the item you searched for? Which company do you think is behind that?

Facebook for some of them, google for others.  But so what?  I find them amusing, advertising stuff I've already bought.

RumRat

Frozen_up_north said:

J_B said:

Frozen_up_north said:

................you will find they collect just about everything you do and use it to target you with adverts

Can you tell me where these adverts appear please?

Have you not searched for something obscure, then visited a local newspaper web site, only to find adverts for the item you searched for? Which company do you think is behind that?

No, that's never happened. In fact there are no adverts on my local paper pages.....I just looked....

ih8stress

RumRat said:

More of a concern Google has moved all it's UK accounts from Irish to US servers due to the uncertainty of Brexit

@RumRat Should anyone with gmail accounts be worried then and should we be using something like this duckduckgo mentioned for web searching instead of google?  Or am I doing my usual techie 'panic' hee hee!

RumRat

You shouldn't worry, it just means that the Government will find it a bit easier to get info from a Google account than it did under EU protection. But, that will only be the case if the UK doesn't roll GDPR into UK law, which it probably will.
You can always wear your tin foil hat and try and avoid things by using the likes of duckduckgo. However, if you are happy using Google and are just doing all the normal stuff then you shouldn't worry. I understand your concern about dealing with vulnerable peoples, but, you shouldn't. The new policy won't change anything you are doing now. I work for a charity that deals with the same sort of information and we use Google and MS.