Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:02:18 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <20080909180033.S1857@klein.bigpond.com>
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[Sorry, resent - I used a sender address not on the list] 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. And it is the default, not something you enable explicitly. Well, some consolidation: you _can_ disable it. Regards Peter
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