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Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

submitted 11 months ago by ono@lemmy.ca to c/privacy@lemmy.ca

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[–] ono@lemmy.ca 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

We have every reason to be skeptical of Google where privacy is concerned, but the design described here looks interesting. In particular, proxying only the off-site resources, and running them through two proxy layers from different providers.

I still won't use Chrome, but if the design holds up to scrutiny, something like it on Firefox (with configurable independent proxy providers) could be appealing.

[–] themeatbridge@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So, instead of companies tracking your IP address, they will have to pay Google to buy your IP address, along with your Google account info and demographics.

[–] astray@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They stopped caring about your ip address and have moved to profiling, so they’ll gladly help you change your ip address to get more from you.

[–] nathris@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

At least it's only the off site resources. As someone who works with credit card processing online and has to deal with BIN attacks those proxy IPs would get banned pretty quickly both by us and the credit card processor. We already have issues with people using free proxies.