www/proprietary malware-google.html

[Therese Godefroy]

CVSROOT:        /webcvs/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/05/03 09:17:44

Modified files:
        proprietary    : malware-google.html 

Log message:
        Synchronize with proprietary-censorship and proprietary-back-doors
        (RT #1284899 and www-discuss)

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/malware-google.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.30&r2=1.31

Patches:
Index: malware-google.html
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RCS file: /webcvs/www/www/proprietary/malware-google.html,v
retrieving revision 1.30
retrieving revision 1.31
diff -u -b -r1.30 -r1.31
--- malware-google.html 9 Apr 2018 23:50:04 -0000       1.30
+++ malware-google.html 3 May 2018 13:17:44 -0000       1.31
@@ -51,28 +51,26 @@
 </div>
 
 <h3 id="back-doors">Google Back Doors</h3>
+
 <ul>
   <li>
     <p>ChromeOS has a universal back door. At least, Google says
     it does&mdash;in <a
-href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chromebook/termsofservice.html";>
+      href="https://www.google.com/intl/en/chromebook/termsofservice.html";>
     section 4 of the EULA</a>.</p>
   </li>
 
-  <li id="back-door-dup1"><p>Chrome has a back door <a 
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/01/18/why-is-google-blocking-this-ad-blocker-on-chrome/";>for
-    remote erasure of add-ons</a>.</p>
-  </li>
-  <li><p>In Android, <a 
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2506557/security0/google-throws--kill-switch--on-android-phones.html";>
-       Google has a back door to remotely delete apps.</a>  (It is in a program
-      called GTalkService).</p>
-    
-    <p>Google can also
-      <a 
href="https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/";>
+  <li>
+    <p>In Android, <a
+      
href="http://www.computerworld.com/article/2506557/security0/google-throws--kill-switch--on-android-phones.html";>
+      Google has a back door to remotely delete apps.</a>  (It is in a
+      program called GTalkService).</p>
+    <p>Google can also <a
+      
href="https://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/";>
        forcibly and remotely install apps</a> through GTalkService (which
       seems, since that article, to have been merged into Google Play).
       This is not equivalent to a universal back door, but permits various
       dirty tricks.</p>
-    
     <p>Although Google's <em>exercise</em> of this power has not been
       malicious so far, the point is that nobody should have such power,
       which could also be used maliciously.  You might well decide to let a
@@ -80,35 +78,38 @@
       considers malicious.  But there is no excuse for allowing it
       to <em>delete</em> the programs, and you should have the right to
       decide who (if anyone) to trust in this way.</p></li>
-  
 </ul>
-<h3 id="censorship">Google Censorship</h3>
-<ul>
-  <li><p>Google Chrome, running on Windows, <a
-  
href="https://thenextweb.com/google/2014/05/27/google-starts-blocking-extensions-chrome-web-store-windows-users-disables-installed-ones/";>
-  is a jail</a>.</p>
-  </li>
     
-  <li><p>Google 
-      <a 
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0316/Google-Family-Link-gives-parents-a-way-to-monitor-preteens-accounts";>
-       offers censorship software</a>, ostensibly for parents to put into
-      their children's computers.</p>
-  </li>
+<h3 id="censorship">Google Censorship</h3>
 
-  <li><p>Chrome is <a href="#back-door-dup1">censored by a back door</a>
-      described above.</p></li>
-  <li><p><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones";>Google
-       censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker,</a> saying that
-      blocking ads is &ldquo;interference&rdquo; with the sites that
-      advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>
+    <p>On Windows and MacOS, Chrome <a
+      
href="https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/extensions-deployment-faq";>
+      disables extensions</a> that are not hosted in the Chrome Web
+      Store.</p>
+    <p>For example, an extension was <a
+      
href="https://consumerist.com/2017/01/18/why-is-google-blocking-this-ad-blocker-on-chrome/";>
+      banned from the Chrome Web Store, and permanently disabled</a>
+      on more than 40,000 computers.</p></li>
     
+  <li>
+    <p><a 
href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/feb/03/google-pulls-ad-blocking-app-for-samsung-phones";>
+      Google censored installation of Samsung's ad-blocker</a> on Android 
phones,
+      saying that blocking ads is &ldquo;interference&rdquo; with the sites
+      that advertise (and surveil users through ads).</p>
     <p>The ad-blocker is proprietary software, just like the program (Google
       Play) that Google used to deny access to install it. Using a nonfree 
program
       gives the owner power over you, and Google has exercised that power.</p>
-    
-    <p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple and Microsoft, is not total:
+    <p>Google's censorship, unlike that of Apple, is not total:
       Android allows users to install apps in other ways. You can install
       free programs from f-droid.org.</p></li>
+
+  <li>
+    <p>Google <a
+      
href="http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0316/Google-Family-Link-gives-parents-a-way-to-monitor-preteens-accounts";>
+      offers censorship software</a>, ostensibly for parents to put into
+      their children's computers.</p></li>
 </ul>
 
 <h3 id="insecurity">Google Insecurity</h3>
@@ -316,7 +317,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2018/04/09 23:50:04 $
+$Date: 2018/05/03 13:17:44 $
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 </p>
 </div>