Comments on: Do you have a fake ad blocker installed in Chrome? https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/ Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:59:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Tyvor Winn https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-583133 Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:59:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-583133 There is an outfit called “Duck Duck Go” that says that they don’t collect any browsing history while you are using them. Some of you more computer literate than I am will probably be better able to evaluate that claim and its relative utility.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582814 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 23:47:25 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582814 In reply to MikeN.

No, if you use an encrypted DNS your ISP will not see your information.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/04/how-to-keep-your-isps-nose-out-of-your-browser-history-with-encrypted-dns/

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582806 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:16:23 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582806 In reply to Doug Alder.

An alternate DNS would still have to first connect thru the ISP, though it could complicate getting a history.

Browsers collect history, but not all of them send this history to the mothership.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582802 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 21:27:26 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582802 In reply to Doug Alder.

Browsers collect history.

Don’t be concerned about the browsers – be concerned about your ISP. They see everything, incognito window or not, and are quite liberal with what they do with it.

You can use an alternate DNS address. The relatively new 1.1.1.1 is fast and has been getting good reviews for security.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582793 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 20:16:37 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582793 In reply to dean.

I wasn’t thinking of Google selling the data, just that they collect it. This is not the same as all browsers. Google collects your browsing history if you are signed in. I am skeptical that this is not done when you are not signed in.

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582787 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:40:29 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582787 Chrome does what essentially every browser does.
https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/

Being concerned about personal data is good. Thinking that Google sells the data (which I think is behind mikeN’s comment) is simply foolish: it’s more valuable to them internally than that, and it’s easy to find out what they do with your stuff. The point of the “malware” concern is that, like Cambridge Analytica, the folks who get your data have no qualms about doing anything with it.

]]> By: MikeN https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582782 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:52:02 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582782 >The malicious code sends the data it collects, including your browsing information, to a remote server.

Doesn’t Chrome do this?

]]> By: Doug Alder https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582781 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 18:26:38 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582781 personally I use EFF’s Privacy Badger https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-badger/pkehgijcmpdhfbdbbnkijodmdjhbjlgp

]]> By: dean https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582763 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:42:57 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582763 https://security.googleblog.com/2017/09/chromes-plan-to-distrust-symantec.html

and the possible consequences

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/02/07/beware_the_coming_chrome_certificate_apocalypse/

]]> By: RickA https://gregladen.com/blog/2018/04/20/do-you-have-a-fake-ad-blocker-installed-in-chrome/#comment-582761 Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:33:07 +0000 https://gregladen.com/blog/?p=29631#comment-582761 Thank you for the heads up.

I just upgraded to Chrome 66 and am now having issues with Malwarebytes (which just disappeared from my icon tray).

I also read about Chrome removing trust in Symantec certificates older than some time in 2016.

Keeping our computers working properly is definitely an iterative process (grin).

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