Google is now moderating user's bookmarks and removing them.

Nah. If you want to be outraged at Google, at least be correct.

This has to do with Google "collections", not synced bookmarks. Afaik, collections are a thing you only access on mobile through the google app, this doesn't even have anything to do with Chrome.

If you run chrome on mobile, for example, you don't have access to the collections. It's only through the google app.

Almost certain they monitor collections because they can be shared with public.

Get. Away. From. Google.

Google keeps taking L's and firefox keeps taking W's. If they keep going maybe firefox will be most used browser again

firefox doesn't do this

Are you fucking shitting me rn? I am sick of how lame this dystopian future is. Where are my neon lights and grungy underground bars? All we get in this timeline are takedown notices, corporate overreach, disappearing content and DMCA strikes.

Op you're so easily fooled

Jesus just stop using Google. I registered my own domains (in plural yes) and nowadays I’m using them with iCloud, but I could easily change my entire emails from provider with a simple dns change.

For browser I advise using Firefox, but if you don’t like its performance Brave it’s also a good choice. (Though both have some shit going on behind curtains still far better than Google).

For password management just use either Bitwarden, Proton Pass or 1Password. It’s easy not to use Google to store your data, there’s a lot of competitors for what they do.

I am so incredibly sick of this intrusive digital dystopia.

getfirefox.com and disable google search in your preferences. F*ck google.

I'm sorry, WHAT?

People are saying this is fake, maybe that image in particular is, but I just got that email and that's annoying me so here's a pic

Is this an old screenshot? The email looks like a screenshot of a screenshot, of a screenshot, etc.

Good thing I've been using Raindrop.io to manage my bookmarks for years because I used to switch browsers so often. I've settled on Firefox for the most part, but am looking forward to Arc on Windows.

guess i'm not using opera anymore, time for firefox.

As people have said, this is fake, but why would you keep any important data with Google anyway?

the only two things that shock me about this is

That it took until now for it to happen
that people are shocked by it.

Not on firefox they're not

Google doing google things. Nothing to see here

I'll switch immediately.

In 2023 I have no time for people like this, unless they are over 80 and my mother.

These MOFO's have really REALLY jumped the shark.

Eat a bag of dicks google

As if I needed any more reasons to avoid their craptacular browser like the plague that it is.

Yeah, that's over the line.

This is why you read the licence agreement, people!

Google scares me

This is kind of amusing actually. Imagine a program that gives you a ton of bookmarks to legally questionable websites, like how that other website (used to?) automatically spam incriminating Google searches into your search history. Then watch the auto-bookmark-moderator suck it all up like a roomba.

chrome can E2E encrypt your bookmarks, I didn't realize it wasn't used by default

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it's their private property !

And here I am perfectly happy with using Edge.