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  1. Re:Any new tracking features? by Anonymous Coward on Chrome 65 Arrives With Material Design Extensions Page, New Developer Features (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 0

    It's getting increasingly more difficult to track unique users due to a proliferation of plugins and shit like that, we need some new functions and API's to allow better and more accurate tracking of users to deliver targeted material. Without this we're sliding back into the spam-approach dark ages. Browser makers need to step up and provide this enhanced functionality or nobody will like the end result.

    Yes:

    https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/47a9285a106c96593c28fd612f61251c532631c1

    Add SafeBrowsingExtendedReportingEnabled policy for SBER pref.

    This results in significant overlap with the existing
    SafeBrowsingExtendedReportingOptInAllowed policy, which is being deprecated here.

    We continue to support SBEROptInAllowed as a legacy preference until it the
    associated policy is deprecated, but we also need the pref for WebView.

    Extended Reporting sends some system information and page content to Google servers to help detect dangerous apps and sites.
    +
    + If the setting is set to true, then reports will be created and sent whenever necessary (such as when a security interstitial

    And guess what it defaults to? Yep, enabled.

  2. Re:The EU too! by Anonymous Coward on A Working, Quantum-Encrypted Intranet · · Score: 0