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I hadn't used Chrome for awhile. When I did yesterday, I found that it has a "new" feature... I guess it is not really that new but it is apparently being implimented slightly differently. Chrome informed me that basically every password that I have ever used since I first signed up for CompuServe has been "compromised". What a fiasco!

Remember that almost nothing that you do online is truly secure and there is a criminal somewhere who is hoping to get rich emptying your accounts... even the ones that they have created for you. Isn't progress just peachy?

1 posted on 03/31/2021 8:29:19 AM PDT by fireman15
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To: fireman15

MEMO: Google knows your passwords.


2 posted on 03/31/2021 8:30:58 AM PDT by MercyFlush (Senator Joseph McCarthy was right. )
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To: fireman15

Use the Brave browser for privacy...soon they are coming put with a search engine also so you can say goodbye to Google.


5 posted on 03/31/2021 8:45:23 AM PDT by hercuroc
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I’m going to trust Google to tell me if my passwords are compromised?

Sure!


7 posted on 03/31/2021 8:52:26 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (The Weak Never Started, The Cowards fail along the way, Only the Strong Survive)
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To: fireman15

Assume Google is also letting their Communist Chinese handlers in on the passwords.


8 posted on 03/31/2021 9:02:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: fireman15

For this to work, you have to tell goofgle your passwords.


9 posted on 03/31/2021 9:06:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: fireman15

I don’t use Chrome - I’m tired of trying to keep up with and defuse all of Google’s intrusions on privacy. There are plenty of other browsers built on the Chromium source base.


12 posted on 03/31/2021 9:21:46 AM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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Google Chrome Will Alert You If Your Password Is Compromised On Android & iOS

So Google knows when your password is compromised. How do they know what your password is? If they do I have a pretty good idea where the leak occurred.

14 posted on 03/31/2021 10:09:45 AM PDT by Starstruck ( Since I'm old I don't whether I'm senile or brilliant. Or happily both.)
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To: fireman15

Not at all new, my Freerepublic PW is claimed to be compromised. It is unique and only used on FR


15 posted on 03/31/2021 10:28:24 AM PDT by UB355 (Slow Traffic keep right)
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More information given that can then be sold by Google............suckers.


19 posted on 03/31/2021 10:59:41 AM PDT by cranked
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First: I hope Google had made this something that can be turned off by the user.

Second: Get away from Google as fast as you can. Use a non-Google browser (I use Brave, great browser) and a non-google search engine (I use duckduckgo.com).

Third: Be careful where you go on the web. I use Web of Trust (free) to let me know when I access a site that doesn’t have a sterling reputation for security.

Fourth: Install anti-tracking software. I use Ghostery (free) to shutdown the trackers. I have accessed sites where Ghostery has found and stopped 40+ trackers.


20 posted on 03/31/2021 12:22:15 PM PDT by upchuck (Republicans better realize the 74 million Trump supporters are not 74 million GOP supporters.)
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