[HN Gopher] New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe...
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       New privacy tools and policies to help you stay safe and in control
       online
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-08-06 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (blog.google)
        
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       | c_prompt wrote:
       | Still doesn't work (since 9 months ago [1]): "Something went
       | wrong and your request wasn't submitted. Check your internet
       | connection and try again."
       | 
       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33338188
        
       | helph67 wrote:
       | https://www.techradar.com/news/nearly-half-of-all-online-tra...
        
         | ssss11 wrote:
         | Can't upvote this enough. The doublespeak out of corporations
         | like Google is outrageous.
        
         | BestGuess wrote:
         | that right there is what they call a conflict of interest. or
         | what we says down here "speakin out both sides o'yer yap"
        
         | hbcondo714 wrote:
         | > All in all, a shocking 93.7% of all online trackers are
         | either from Google, Facebook, or Microsoft
        
       | lijok wrote:
       | > Last year, we launched the Results about you tool to make it
       | easy for you to request the removal of search results that
       | contain your personal phone number, home address or email, right
       | from the Google app or however you access Search
       | 
       | Why would you be indexing this information in the first place?
        
         | f_allwein wrote:
         | Because it might be on a public website not blocked by an
         | appropriate robots.txt
        
       | account-5 wrote:
       | Read title: sounds interesting. See it's Google blog: lol.
        
       | quyleanh wrote:
       | > You can access this tool in the Google app by clicking on your
       | Google account photo and selecting "Results about you", or by
       | visiting goo.gle/resultsaboutyou. This tool is available in the
       | U.S. in English to start, and we're working to bring it to new
       | languages and locations soon.
       | 
       | Have to wait again
        
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