GreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Google@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agoGoogle can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usagewww.theregister.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up1169arrow-down12file-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
arrow-up1167arrow-down1external-linkGoogle can totally explain why Chromium browsers quietly tell only its websites about your CPU, GPU usagewww.theregister.comGreenEngineering3475@lemmy.world to Google@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: hardware@lemmy.world
minus-squareGreee1911@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoI’m trying to understand why I care that websites know what cpu I have. Why do I care? Why is this some mass invasion of privacy?
minus-square𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up16·4 months agoFingerprinting, it allows Google to track exactly who you are across the web. Anything you look at or search for, Google can find out it’s you basically. So yes, massive invasion of privacy.
I’m trying to understand why I care that websites know what cpu I have. Why do I care? Why is this some mass invasion of privacy?
Fingerprinting, it allows Google to track exactly who you are across the web. Anything you look at or search for, Google can find out it’s you basically.
So yes, massive invasion of privacy.