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		mintplant on March 20, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FTC Probing Facebook for Use of Personal Data, Sou... And the "Sign Into Chrome" feature slurps up all your history, cookies, etc. in a form Google can read and which their terms allow them to data-mine, unless you know to dig into the settings and configure a separate encryption key.

marcell on March 20, 2018 [–]

Isn't that necessary for Sign Into Chrome? The whole point is that you can transfer your history/cookies across browsers.

mintplant on March 20, 2018 | [–]

Firefox manages to sync just fine while automatically encrypting data end-to-end.

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