NYT story today about harvesting YouTube data Archived Message
Posted by Potomac on April 6, 2024, 19:07:28, in reply to "Apparently Google knows what p0rn you watch. They were scraping incognito mode browsing data "
OpenAI and Google itself violated Google’s own policy about using YT content outside of YT. Not to mention terms of service and copyright problems. Previous Message https://www.npr.org/2024/04/01/1242019127/google-incognito-mode-settlement-search-history Google will destroy the private browsing history of millions of people who used "incognito" mode in its Chrome browser as a part of a settlement filed to federal court on Monday in a case over the company's secret tracking of web activity. For years, Google simply informed users of Chrome's internet browser that "you've gone Incognito" and "now you can browse privately," when the supposedly untraceable browsing option was turned on — without saying what bits of data the company has been harvesting. Yet, according to a 2020 class-action lawsuit, the tech giant continued to scrape searches by hoovering up data about users who browsed the internet in incognito mode through advertising tools used by websites, grabbing "potentially embarrassing" searches of millions of people. Google then used this data to measure web traffic and sell ads.
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