Google Chrome

[Kris Kennaway]

Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:
> Hello Peter!
> 
> Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:56:05PM +1000 you wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav 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
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> 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.  
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> 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.
> 
> You may be interested in knowing that the same feature is present in
> other browsers. Get your proxy to ban urls containing
> `google.com/complete/search' if that's a concern (as for me, it's just
> annoying).

Yes, firefox etc also does exactly the same thing.  You can just disable 
it in the browser configuration.

Kris