Google Chrome

[Peter Ross]

On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:

> Google Chrome is open source.  If you're really worried that it might be
> secretly collecting data about you and sending it to Google ..

I just double-checked the thread, I could not see someone mentioning it:

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html
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When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type are 
sent to Google so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms or 
URLs you may be looking for. If you choose to share usage statistics with 
Google and you accept a suggested query or URL, Google Chrome will send 
that information to Google as well. You can disable this feature as 
explained here.  
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If I read it correctly:

_Every_ time you type into your ('conveniently' combined) URL/search 
field, it gets immediately send to Google.

In other words: Google can record your webbrowsing.

And it is the default, not something you enable explicitly.

Well, some consolidation: you _can_ disable it.

Regards
Peter