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Comment by Karellen | Hacker News Reader

The current initial version might very well be innocuous.

Are you going to analyze every update? Or even remember to check online to find the results of someone else's analysis of every update?

Or do you trust Google to never change their priorities with regards to how this extension operates?

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Not a googler but sometimes the paranoia on this forum is really over the top. Even in the barren privacy wasteland that is the United States you can’t provide a product that is advertised as an opt out mechanism and then make it not do that! Even burying that in the terms of service won’t fly. They would have to just discontinue it.

Google records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. - https://apnews.com/828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb

Google Sued by D.C., States Over Tracking Despite Opt-Outs - https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-and-data-security/goog...

Apple, Google Both Track Mobile Telemetry Data, Despite Users Opting Out - https://threatpost.com/google-apple-track-mobile-opting-out/...

They lie and break the law to profit at your expense and harm you. Treat them accordingly.

It looks like they’re taking public heat every time there’s even a minor violation here? This seems to be working as intended to me.

Unless it puts a stop to the spying, it's not working as intended, no.

> Or even remember to check online to find the results of someone else's analysis of every update?

I don't need to, if they changed it then it would go to the top of HN for a day at least. That is much better than some random extension creator that can sell it to a malicious actor at any point, that isn't news so would likely go under my radar.

On the other hand, they already own chrome. There's no need to try sneak something into an addon, when they could've done the same in chrome.

Now apply your argument to “random anonymous person” or “small startup”.

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