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Google is the master of fake Privacy features - gHacks Tech News (www.ghacks.net)

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Google started out with a "don't be evil" motto when it launched its first product, Google Search. Today, Google is a different company. It has created numerous products and abandoned a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Well, with that proxying feature, I mostly meant that they're not doing it for the privacy, but rather for those other benefits.
Much like with 8.8.8.8 for DNS and AMP for the server-side, this feature locks down the client-side, ensuring that internet traffic goes over their infrastructure.

Yes, user privacy is short-term somewhat improved, because their competitors can't track you quite as easily anymore, but if they truly cared about improving privacy/security, there would be so many much lower hanging fruits they could pick, like end-to-end-encryption for Chrome Sync by default. They don't pick those, because it would impact their own ability to invade user privacy.