Google is really good at crowdsourcing ideas by reading your email surreptitiously; at getting those tasty IP treats by scanning your cloud documents; and by watching trends by sifting through billions of keypresses and mousemovements sent secretly by your chrome browser.
Also, since they were funded initially by the CIA and Darpa, they have access to unlimited black budget money (51T by some estimates now) so of course they can build the best stuff
and give it all away for FREE!!! (because they are mining all your data for profitizing potentialities among their backchannel services networks)
Sites like wapo need to find a better way to make money than being a blog for bezos and the CIA to mindrape everyone with disinfo nonsense
Sometimes you can lie by omission and democracy really DOES die in darkness
Ask WAPO who Imran Awan is, and why they didn't tell you for over 2.5 yrs now? Let's talk about the most viciously censored scandal in US history that is being blockaded by what has become a completely separate timeline for infocucks
Not only should you use privoxy with tight settings to block everything
You should also disable QUIC in chrome
Anything related to webassembly (like you know what it's doing...huge security risk there)
any video card accelerator interface middleware (information ratline)
you should turn all urls back to mozilla or google in the advanced settings (about:config and chrome:flags) back to 127.0.0.1 to disable them
get an extension to block canvas information siphoning (fingerprinting)
disable webRTC via extension or advanced settings
disable "native client" in chrome (allows google to watch what your'e doing)
disable any vnc
disable any "help" or "spellchecking in the cloud" or "predictive blah blah in the cloud" or
pipeline seems to be ok, security wise afaik
disable any "protect you from malicious sites" -- that's tracking everything you do
and use DNSSEC or DNS over TLS on your router, by for example flashing your router with dd-wrt or tomato or using an advanced firewall computer that can handle all this. It's kind of annoying to set up, but it will be worth it, if you care about your privacy
The worst thing you can do is set your dns to 8888 and 8844 that's basically giving all your internet activity to google, because of your convenience
free version of protonmail works for me but it's extremely slow
also, it's switzerland and I don't trust switzerland because they have a long history of protecting both corrupt govs and criminals alike with 'anonymoyus banking'
That may not exist anymore, but the criminal networks have already won, and that's switzerlands fault
also it's where the cia and post-nazis store their money (coincidence? I think not)
Eventually some madman like myself is going to come to power and the first thing they'll do if they are smart is to Nuke switzlerand. No one will see that coming
> Am I crazy or does this seem like an extremely cynical attempt to get more phone numbers?
Nope you are not crazy at all, that's exactly what they are doing. It's the same pattern in practice of online banks that are demanding you give them an SMS capable phone, it's so that they can in the backchannel identify you through AT&T, which is really teh corporate face of the NSA (don't argue with me, 33 thomas st. nyc), and the implications there is that they have many things tied together in fusion centers so they can use something like palantir to instantly profile you when you put in that number and it draws in via their backchannel apis your bank accounts into a single view along with your other information, like medical, civic, etc that's literally what fusion centers do. It's all hooked up for THEIR convenience, and its all keyed off now on google's gaia_id. They tether your phone number(s) to gaia_id and voila all these data sources get drawn in....it's all about the convenience to the five eyes/nato people to force you to use their free sandwich stuff and get everyone tied into the central hub of services that is google
So I agree with others: don't use a chromebook. I have an older friend who needed a laptop for work and I made the mistake of getting a chromebook. The f*cking thing didn't do TKIP correctly in WPA2 so it didn't work with my wifi without making major changes to security in a tactical frustration that made ME look like I didn't know what I was doing
It was a G d nightmare, but needless to say I will NEVER use a chromebook again, esp after hearing your issue with the phone
Just get a refurb lenovo from tigertits or newegg and put linux mint debian edition with xfce on it. The end
Everything you do in chrome is called back to google servers. Even if you block cookies you can look at the network tab in dev tools and see it calling back; also it sends the links you click on to a malware check service (you know, safe browsing) that server tracks everything you click on: no cookies needed; there are also endpoints for transmitting your urls for 'quality of service' (to optimize bandwidth), that tracks, and then all the performance data called bakc to the google servers could potentially have your data steganographically included in that data
There are many things that chrome is doing that are dubious, quasi legal
one thing they could be doing is a kind of reverse beacon or barium meal beacon where they generate a unique code and steganographically insert that as an overlay into images...you won't see the difference when your webpage loads the image, but then some javascript will send that image back to a server, and there you ahve a cross site tracking mechanism. This concept has been used in browser fingerprinting, but now that has evolved with html5 with the canvas tag which generates unique ids and sends that back in order to track your browser everywhere around the internet without needing cookies or websocket sessions or any other newer session mgmt mechanism
Someone else said 'your chrome account IS your google account' They are quite right. Google created an identifier that makes email as an id obsolete, and its called GAIA_ID. You can google it. Basically all of their services are keyed off on their universal gmail gaia_id but they planned on using this even beyond gmail but as a 'universal identifier' to track everyone on every service that interacts with google, such as tying the gaia_id to the apple id, facebook id
You guys really don't get it do you? Google is oceania, it's five eyes / cia-nato and they wanted to have a 'global identifier' to identify everyone on the planet. If they haven't already achieved it (likely they have) then it's something they're aiming for.
google is a technofascist information monopoly, and given that they've been cenosring people politically on youtube by demonetizing and deplatforming them, that should give you pause, in case your opinons 'just so happen to evolve with new information that disagrees with the reigning silicon valley biased cult of opinion called 'the establishment''
sorry I went political here, but software is becoming VERY political. Things in firefox break more and more every day, forcing you to use chrome. FF widevine support breaks all the time, oops there goes NETFLIX and HULU and AMAZON on your linux platform... this kind of thing. Google is widevine, so you better be politically aligned with google or else....no DRM check for you, no video for your customers
Also, since they were funded initially by the CIA and Darpa, they have access to unlimited black budget money (51T by some estimates now) so of course they can build the best stuff
and give it all away for FREE!!! (because they are mining all your data for profitizing potentialities among their backchannel services networks)