[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)
(HTM) web link (blog.google)
(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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