Comment by charcircuit
3 years ago
By this definition any browser history feature is "spyware." Actual spyware would steal the browser history instead of keeping it device local.
3 years ago
By this definition any browser history feature is "spyware." Actual spyware would steal the browser history instead of keeping it device local.
Read the actual words that it actually says. Sites can pay Google to get a profile of you, based on your browsing history, sent to them when you visit their website. Who's keeping anything local?
What are you talking about? Your history is saved locally. Websites call document.browsingTopics() to get topics that the user is interested in.
So if a website, which already has way too many ways to identify you, calls document.browsingTopics() to see that some of your recent topics of interest are pregnancy tests and abortion pills, or knows that you are male and sees that you've been recently interested in dresses and panties, and this website happens to be a far-right-leaning activist website, and decides to dox you, or blackmail you, or forward this information to Ron DeSantis's administration for possible criminal prosecution, you're all good with that? You don't consider that spyware? That's just as bad as my browser having a back button?
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