Google Chrome

[Sergey Zaharchenko]

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).

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