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Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses

www.bleepingcomputer.com Google Chrome's new "IP Protection" will hide users' IP addresses

Google is getting ready to test a new "IP Protection" feature for the Chrome browser that enhances users' privacy by masking their IP addresses using proxy servers.

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- User ➡ Google ➡ Cloudflare ➡ Hosting Provider ➡ Web Server
  
  Google just want to get that sweet user data to sell to advertisers that Cloudflare would get otherwise.
  
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- They really seem intent on getting total traffic control
Google doesn't want to keep your information private, they want to keep it private from everyone else.
- unless they pay for it*
- And then sell it to them.
by making it so that it is hidden to anyone, except for google. It is not possible to hide your ip completely online. Your ip address is the only way for anyone to reach you. The only way to hide your ip from someone is to have someone else (who does know your ip address) make the request on your behalf, and forward data forward and back between the two endpoints. Everything has to go through the middleman.

Google will be that middleman
- Google is ready for that "sacrifice" on your behalf.
- Yup, they will get access to literally everything you do online.
  
  The joke's on them: I do nothing online in a literal fashion. #litchally
- Yeah but Google will know it either way, so it really doesn't matter. Not that IPs really matter anyway.
  
  Google wouldn't know it either way. What even is this sentiment? Google doesn't own the internet. Don't use their services and use a VPN.
  
  they know your ip anyway. everyone does. It's your only identifier online. I'd rather not send all my data through them anyway.
So companies can still get your IP the same as before, they just have to pay Google now to get it
my comment on the same topic:

Since most of Google’s revenue comes from tracking users across the internet and offering them personalized ads, it will be interesting to see how the company strikes a balance between user privacy and revenue generation.

Isn't it obvious? Google own's the proxies. And judging by the look of this, they are going to act as a a Man In The Middle for HTTPS, so they will be actually able to see everyone's plain text connections. This is not a privacy feature, but a privacy nightmare. Like everything else on Chrome, tbh

Edit: I don't know if they will be breaking HTTPS or no, since I didn't see the details of how this works. But even if they don't see your plain text traffic, they are logging your every request, which is scary.
We have every reason to be skeptical of Google where privacy is concerned, but the design described here looks interesting. In particular, proxying only the off-site resources, and running them through two proxy layers from different providers.

I still won't use Chrome, but if the design holds up to scrutiny, something like it on Firefox (with configurable independent proxy providers) could be appealing.
- So, instead of companies tracking your IP address, they will have to pay Google to buy your IP address, along with your Google account info and demographics.
  
  They stopped caring about your ip address and have moved to profiling, so they’ll gladly help you change your ip address to get more from you.
- At least it's only the off site resources. As someone who works with credit card processing online and has to deal with BIN attacks those proxy IPs would get banned pretty quickly both by us and the credit card processor. We already have issues with people using free proxies.
Google is the reason we need IP protection.
Reading the GitHub, it's actually not a bad idea if you're allowed to change the cdn
If you don't understand by now that everything Google does is a way to monetize your personal data, no one can help you.
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