Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:18:38 +0400 From: Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef-ctm@yandex.ru> To: Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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). -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:) [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjGTX0ACgkQwo7hT/9lVdxZsQCfb+5vfcfG4CPXyvm2vuVwZdBf QxIAnRZXawNxWF587dJt6y423ke/HXmD =fuj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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