Comment by MisterDizzy
6 months ago
Hardly surprising. This is very Google-like behavior. The question is do other Chromium browsers have this? Edge? Brave? Chromium? Ungoogled Chromium?
6 months ago
Hardly surprising. This is very Google-like behavior. The question is do other Chromium browsers have this? Edge? Brave? Chromium? Ungoogled Chromium?
Don't know about the rest, but ungoogled chromium scrambles every occurrence of the string "google" in the code specifically to avoid things like this, so probably not.
It is disabled: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium/blo...
If this flag is true then the extension is added: https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr... and https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/main:chr...
Scrambles to a static unpurchased domain?
No network traffic is allowed on that random TLD. It is blocked.
If you end up with characters outside of the valid range after scrambling, then probably not.
You’d hope so right?
If you don’t want to use Google’s browser, don’t use Google’s browser.
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Unless Chromium does something like atob("Z29vZ2xlLmNvbQ==")
Malware obfuscation techniques to fuel the ad machine.
What if it’s checking a hash of the domain name?
Yes, Edge has it enabled. If you open Google Meet troubleshooting in Edge you can see your system CPU. If you try it in Firefox it says "Try Google Chrome to see your CPU usage".