Google Chrome

[Peter Ross]

Hi Sergey,

On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote:

> Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:56:05PM +1000 you wrote:
> 
> > _Every_ time you type into your ('conveniently' combined) URL/search 
> > field, it gets immediately send to Google.
> 
> 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).

Correct me if I am wrong:

Firefox only contacts Google if DNS fails. AFAIK as long as you have a 
valid URL it does not go to Google.

Google Chrome sends an event every time you type into the URL/Search field 
(using Javascript) so Google can make suggestions while you are typing.

So _every_ URL is sent to them.

Yes, I know that you can use tor. But the most users will not do it. As 
most don't care about changing defaults at all. So if Chrome becomes 
widely used, Google harvests the browsing history of millions of users.

Regards
Peter