Ask HN: Did anyone just get prompted by Google Chrome with a privacy form?

Here's the screenshot[0] of the survey widget Google just sent me to. Did anyone else here just get a "Privacy Checkup" notification in Chrome for something like this? I think it happened when I opened a new tab.

I was a bit upset to find out that Google ignored my request to turn off tracking my location, which I remember disabling a few weeks ago. I don't recall ever turning these settings on.

In the lower right corner, they asked me a bunch of questions about how I think they are handling my privacy.

[0] https://imgur.com/Esgtwlp

59 points | by anonytrary 2038 days ago

8 comments

Rafuino 2038 days ago
I got it b/c I think I'm on a VPN and had to use Chrome (which I rarely do) when a page I needed wouldn't load properly on my preferred browser. I assume it's a way for Chrome to get you to log in, as I wasn't logged in to Chrome at the time.
operatorequals 2038 days ago
I'm always surprised with how much people get surprised about google spying on them. Or about google ignoring privacy options in platforms they own (chrome, android).
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- anonytrary 2037 days ago
  The only thing that surprised me was when I learned that Google was tracking my location, given that I explicitly disabled that a few weeks ago.
floatingatoll 2037 days ago
I remember getting this every few months for a year or two.
dawnerd 2038 days ago
Get it every now and then. I don’t see an alarm here, they could be saying nothing at all and keeping you completely in the dark.
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- salawat 2037 days ago
  ...
  We don't really care what you say or do because we're going to collect the data anyway. But hey, at least we're honest!
  And you don't see reason for alarm?
  What exactly qualifies as reason for alarm for you out of curiosity?
lprd 2038 days ago
Hmm, I haven't seen this pop up yet. Did you navigate to gmail or some other google service to get this to show up?
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- anonytrary 2038 days ago
  It was either triggered right when I opened a new tab or right after I opened a new tab and did a (Google) search in the URL bar. This[0] is what the popup looks like.
  [0] https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-dR9upJLiSgQ/Wv2K8LA3b-I/A...
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  - code_duck 2038 days ago
    I saw this recently but don’t recall the context.
toomuchtodo 2037 days ago
Oddly enough, it happened when I was using Chrome to download Firefox to replace Chrome.
throwaway8879 2038 days ago
I get it everytime I log into Google through a VPN.
reed266 2037 days ago
No did