| Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Carrie.Emily.Murphy | 10/31/11 12:45 PM | Google Chrome version: 15.0.874.106 (Official Build 107270) m As a suggestion, it might be best to remove the image from thumbnails for recently visited sites that are secure. Perhaps substituting a lock on a blank grey square. As it is now, for exa |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | †Dragontatt† | 10/31/11 12:54 PM | I complained about this years ago. My answer was that it is to small to read. Kinda like, get over it. I hate the thumbnails. |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Carrie.Emily.Murphy | 10/31/11 1:08 PM | I agree that it's rather small, however, you can quite clearly get a great deal of information from it. For example, because of how my financial institution formats their page, you can tell what's checking vs savings. Also, by hitting Ctrl+ you can t |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | S_Z | 12/7/11 6:22 AM | The thumbnail should use fake data instead for privacy concern. however, it will still be a problem for some confidential non-text information,such as "Charts". in that case, maybe a metaphor icon can be used instead. |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | caver_tim | 12/7/11 6:30 AM | It'd be a lot of work, and an invasion of privacy, if Chrome read the webpage understood it and blured out the correct areas or used "fake data". (even if you can agree what the 'correct' areas are) as for "https://" sites should be automatically blu |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Alupis | 10/24/12 8:12 AM | Why is this still an issue Google?!?!?!?! It is beyond me to believe anyone with half a brain over at Google actually thinks displaying my PayPal Account page to anyone who sits on my computer is a good idea. Are you for real????? How about NO thumb |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | caver_tim | 10/24/12 8:30 AM | if you don't want paypal to appear on the 8 most used then close that thumbnail and it'll get replaced with something else |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Alupis | 10/24/12 12:55 PM | I don't think you fully understand how major of a security problem this can be. for there to be a thumbnail, it means that chrome is screenshoting things and storing that image someplace. Which means even after I remove it, there is a possibility of |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | caver_tim | 10/24/12 1:03 PM | probably not a lot i can say to placate you.Its not something i'm personally worried about. I don't go to paypal or banking enough for those pages to come up, and the resolution of the thumbnails is not enough to see any sensible details when i do. I |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Alupis | 10/24/12 7:49 PM | A question that comes to mind is that Chrome is likely taking a screen shot of your entire screen, then scaling it down to display in the Recently Visited tab. This means a full size image possibly is stored someplace else on your computer. Not good. |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | caver_tim | 10/25/12 1:02 AM | If you're that worried about information being cached, you may also like to worry that perhaps all browsers keep a log of all data filled into forms on web pages including credit card numbers.I've not fiddled with my installs of Opera or Firefox on m |
| Re: Privacy/Security in "Recently Viewed" Thumbnails | Alupis | 10/31/12 9:12 AM | I'm sorry, this is complete Horse Shit. Just because this is not a personal problem for your caver does not mean it is not a major problem for many other people. Try to imagine that you are not the only Chrome user out there. There absolutely needs t |