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Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?

59 pointsanonytrary12 comments

Here's the screenshot[0] of the survey widget Google just sent me to. Did anyone else here just get a "Privacy Checkup" notification in Chrome for something like this? I think it happened when I opened a new tab.

I was a bit upset to find out that Google ignored my request to turn off tracking my location, which I remember disabling a few weeks ago. I don't recall ever turning these settings on.

In the lower right corner, they asked me a bunch of questions about how I think they are handling my privacy.

[0] https://imgur.com/Esgtwlp

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I got it b/c I think I'm on a VPN and had to use Chrome (which I rarely do) when a page I needed wouldn't load properly on my preferred browser. I assume it's a way for Chrome to get you to log in, as I wasn't logged in to Chrome at the time.

I'm always surprised with how much people get surprised about google spying on them. Or about google ignoring privacy options in platforms they own (chrome, android).

The only thing that surprised me was when I learned that Google was tracking my location, given that I explicitly disabled that a few weeks ago.

I remember getting this every few months for a year or two.

Get it every now and then. I don’t see an alarm here, they could be saying nothing at all and keeping you completely in the dark.

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We don't really care what you say or do because we're going to collect the data anyway. But hey, at least we're honest!

And you don't see reason for alarm?

What exactly qualifies as reason for alarm for you out of curiosity?

Hmm, I haven't seen this pop up yet. Did you navigate to gmail or some other google service to get this to show up?

It was either triggered right when I opened a new tab or right after I opened a new tab and did a (Google) search in the URL bar. This[0] is what the popup looks like.

[0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dR9upJLiSgQ/Wv2K8LA3b-I/A...

I saw this recently but don’t recall the context.

Oddly enough, it happened when I was using Chrome to download Firefox to replace Chrome.

I get it everytime I log into Google through a VPN.

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