ANNOTATIONS whats-the-point/ as well as https://www.datacenterknowledge.

com/
https://spreadprivacy.com/tracking-in- archives/2017/01/13/paper-details-google-
INTRODUCTION incognito/ data-center-security-design
· Chrome tracking your movements even
Page 1 when you have turned off location PART 3 – THE REGRESSION GAME
· The online version of Scott McCloud’s “services”:
original Chrome Comic from 2008 can be https://apnews.com/ Page 12
found at: 828aefab64d4411bac257a07c1af0ecb/AP- · The new sync mode has been widely
https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrom Exclusive:-Google-tracks-your-movements- discussed and critized:
e/index.html like-it-or-not https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-
See also https://scottmccloud.com/7- · “Both Android and Chrome send data to secretly-logs-users-into-chrome-whenever-
consulting/index.html Google even in the absence of any user they-log-into-a-google-site/ and
interaction.” (From „Google Data https://www.wired.com/story/google-
Page 2 Collection”, a 2018 paper by Vanderbilt chrome-login-privacy/ and
· Google Chrome active installs: University professor Douglas C. Schmidt) https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/gyny83/
https://pctechmag.com/2016/11/google- https://digitalcontentnext.org/wp-content/ google-chrome-sync-privacy
chrome-hits-a-milestone-of-two-billion- uploads/2018/08/DCN-Google-Data- It was also the focus of Matthew Green’s
active-installs/ Collection-Paper.pdf infamous blog post listed under Page 4.
· Global browser market share 2020: · The original Washington Post article will
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market- not be linked here, as the only way to peek Page 13
share or behind its paywall is to be thoroughly · See the Chrome Privacy Policy listed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ tracked; you can find Geoffrey Fowler’s under Page 5.
Usage_share_of_web_browsers arguments here as well (some of which · Chrome as covert listening tool:
(It’s worth noting here that browsers like have made it directly onto the comics page): https://boingboing.net/2015/06/24/chrome-
Edge, Opera and Vivaldi are merely built on https://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/lifestyle/techn update-turns-browsers-i.html
top of Chrome’s core technology.) ology/geoffrey-fowler-why-googles-web- · Secret recordings of audio/video:
· Google revenue in 2021: browser-has-become-spy-software/ https://thehackernews.com/2017/05/
https://www.statista.com/statistics/266206/ browser-camera-microphone.html
googles-annual-global-revenue/ Page 7 · About the Chrome Cleanup Tool “poking
· A helpful tool for breaking down Chrome’s through your underwear drawer without
PART 1 – DIAL O FOR OMNIBOX labyrinthine Privacy Policy: asking” (Matthew Green):
https://myshadow.org/lost-in-small-print/goo https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/
gles-privacy-policy wj7x9w/google-chrome-scans-files-on-your-
Page 4
· On the Omnibox “No Return Policy”: windows-computer-chrome-cleanup-tool
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blo PART 2 – PLATFORM PUZZLES · On Chrome’s surveilling hyperlink auditing:
g/2008/sep/04/googlechromeprivacyissuesa https://boingboing.net/2019/04/08/no-opt-
· Cf. this blog post by John Hopkins Page 10 out.html
cryptographer Matthew Green, “Why I’m · On Chrome for Android sending location · On Google secretly exempting its own
done with Chrome”: coordinates to Google, see Geoffrey websites when you ask Chrome to wipe all
https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2 Fowler’s article listed under Page 6. cookies and site data:
018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/ · If you use Chrome and/or have a Google https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/19/
account, you can verify the worrying Google google_cookie_wipe
Page 5 Maps/Google Earth behavior by visiting: · On Chrome monitoring your sleep cycle
· Chrome’s current Privacy Policy: https://myactivity.google.com/ and daily routine via ‘Idle Detection’:
https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/ · About Google Home privacy issues: https://www.theregister.com/2021/09/22/
· Panels 2-5 are based on, and sometimes https://www.theguardian.com/technology/20 google_emits_chrome_94_with/
heavily quote, Shoshana Zuboff, “The Age 19/jul/11/google-home-assistant-listen-
of Surveillance Capitalism” (New York: recordings-users-privacy Page 14
Hachette Book Group, 2019), pp. 186–187. · On Google restricting modern ad blockers:
Page 11 https://www.forbes.com/sites/
Page 6 · For details on Google’s data center kateoflahertyuk/2019/05/30/google-just-
· On the not-at-all incognito mode, see security practices, see: gave-2-billion-chrome-users-a-reason-to-
https://choosetoencrypt.com/privacy/ switch-to-firefox/ and
chromes-incognito-mode-isnt-private-so-
https://9to5google.com/2019/05/29/chrome- challenge of exploiting second-modernity Page 22
ad-blocking-enterprise-manifest-v3/ needs and insecurities for outside gain.” · On Chrome not being the speedy beast it
· The original filing submitted by Alphabet to · The de-anonymization of metadata is used to be, see this Google Trends graphic
the US Securities and Exchange discussed by Zuboff, e.g. on p. 244f.: comparing the search terms “Chrome slow”
Commission (SEC): “We are told that it’s not possible to identify and “Firefox slow” from 2008 to 2021:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/ individuals from these large-scale https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?
1652044/000165204419000004/goog10- amalgamations. However, with as little as date=2008-01-01%202021-01-
kq42018.htm#sB8A92C82A7085B27A37F4 three bits of data culled from the public 01&q=chrome%20slow,firefox%20slow
12D2216BC6F record – birth date, zip code, and sex –
reidentification science has demonstrated Page 23
Page 15 its ability to de-anonymize metadata with · Download Firefox here:
· On Google quietly erasing their motto ‘disturbing ease.’” https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
“Don‘t be evil” from their code of conduct: · Download Tor Browser here:
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google- PART 5 – CONCLUSION https://www.torproject.org/download/
erases-dont-be-evil-from-code-of-conduct- (It is worth noting that some critics view
after-18-years/ and Page 20 Firefox as part of the Google ecosystem.
https://gizmodo.com/google-removes- · The racist slurs have been pixelated so as Google’s considerable funding of Firefox is
nearly-all-mentions-of-dont-be-evil-from- not to further reproduce hate speech. If you seen as a strategy to evade antitrust
1826153393 want to see the concrete wording, check legislation by simulating a pseudo-

out: competitor, while Mozilla, the foundation

PART 4 – THE SHADOW TEXT https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexk behind Firefox, is strikingly unwilling to

antrowitz/google-allowed-advertisers-to- investigate more independent sources of

Page 16 target-jewish-parasite-black revenue for years – but even most of those

· The “Shadow Text” concept is first · Like “Shadow Text”, “radical indifference” critics grudgingly use Firefox.)

introduced in “The Age of Surveillance is a term coined by Shoshana Zuboff. Cf.

Capitalism”, Part I, chapter six, “III. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/ EPILOGUE
Surveillance Capital and the Two Texts”, pp. mar/25/google-youtube-advertising-extremist-
183–187 (see Page 5). Some remarks by content-att-verizon Page 29
Shoshana Zuboff’s comic character · Trump voter manipulation via “Shadow · On Chrome’s initially planned FloC
shamelessly quote her real-life counterpart. Text”: technology as a serious security concern:
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/03/
Page 17 mar/17/cambridge-analytica-facebook- googles-floc-terrible-idea and
· An example of personality particles being influence-us-election and https://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-floc-
derived from your Shadow Text would be https://theintercept.com/2017/03/30/ trial
the Facebook “like”, as a 2013 paper by facebook-failed-to-protect-30-million-users- · Report on Google’s backpedaling
Michal Kosinksi, David Stillwell and Thore from-having-their-data-harvested-by-trump- concerning FloC:
Graepel (and quoted by Zuboff on p. 274) campaign-affiliate/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/01/
showed: Facebook “likes” could · Brexit voter manipulation: google-drops-floc-after-widespread-
“automatically and accurately estimate a https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ opposition-pivots-to-topics-api-plan/
wide range of personal attributes that 2017/may/07/the-great-british-brexit- · Source for the piranha quote:
people would typically assume to be robbery-hijacked-democracy https://bigbrotherawards.de/en/2021/what-
private,” among them sexual orientation, really-makes-me-angry-google
ethnicity, religious and political views, Page 21 · And lastly, hundreds of German data-
personality traits, intelligence, happiness, · On Google spending ~$150 million on US harvesting publishers and advertising
use of addictive substances, parental lobbying over last decade: companies, among them Axel Springer,
separation, age, and gender. https://boingboing.net/2020/01/22/google- filing an EU antitrust complaint against
spent-150-million-on.html Google in early 2022, claiming damage for
Page 18 · On Google as one of Brussel’s most active their businesses once third-party cookies
· On personalization, cf. “The Age of lobbyists: are abolished:
Surveillance Capitalism” p. 256 f.: “The https://lobbyfacts.eu/articles/12-12-2016/ https://techcrunch.com/2022/01/24/
machine invasion of human depth is google-one-brussels%E2%80%99-most- germany-publishers-privacy-sandbox-
prosecuted under the banner of active-lobbyists and complaint/
“personalization,” a slogan that betrays the https://lobbyfacts.eu/reports/lobby-costs/
zest and cynicism brought to the grimy all/0/1/2/2/21/0/