Every window you open on the web may also be a window into your life tracking your behavior, emotions, thoughts, even choices. Every search, every map query, every site page, every trivia, every Gmail login feeds into the same machine. Chrome isn’t just a browser; it’s a portal to surveillance. We trace how Google is used to collect your data and feed it into AI models learning from us in real-time. Is there. way to get privacy back? The answer to that is shared at the end.
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Fringe groups realize Google is more than convenience for the user, but a portal for collection of information about the user, and surveillance. But how does information get captured, and what do they use it for?
Chrome and Google became dominant in the industry of browsing. In it the platform interacts with other apps and entries and installs cookies that leave breadcrumbs for tracking.
While boasting privacy is secure, it allows breaching of privacy upon our notice of usage, whether we like it or not. Some of the intrusiveness is excused for operation.
AI predictive analytics allows the machines to harvest lives with the excuse for “training purposes.” It allows a data to AI pipeline. Google utilizes Gemini, a program for surveillance and data collection.
In some cases this data can be used to present in court to restrict citizens and collect on their activities. But citizens have the ability to restrict these intrusions.