From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 10:30:53 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E79D1065679 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:30:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doublef-ctm@yandex.ru) Received: from forwards3.yandex.ru (forwards3.yandex.ru [213.180.223.174]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E07878FC1B for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 10:30:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doublef-ctm@yandex.ru) Received: from smtp10.yandex.ru (smtp10.yandex.ru [213.180.223.92]) by forwards3.yandex.ru (Postfix) with ESMTP id 857A74C5B09; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:18:51 +0400 (MSD) Received: from [77.75.10.91] ([77.75.10.91]:49510 "EHLO shark" smtp-auth: "doublef-ctm" TLS-CIPHER: TLS-PEER-CN1: ) by mail.yandex.ru with ESMTP id S5865596AbYIIKSm (ORCPT + 1 other); Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:18:42 +0400 X-Yandex-Spam: 1 X-Yandex-Front: smtp10 X-Yandex-TimeMark: 1220955522 X-MsgDayCount: 2 X-Comment: RFC 2476 MSA function at smtp10.yandex.ru logged sender identity as: doublef-ctm Received: by shark (Postfix, from userid 1000) id AF7471434A6; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:18:38 +0400 (MSD) Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:18:38 +0400 From: Sergey Zaharchenko To: Peter Ross Message-ID: <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> Mail-Followup-To: Sergey Zaharchenko , Peter Ross , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> X-Listening-To: Silence User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 10:30:53 -0000 --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello Peter! Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:56:05PM +1000 you wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: >=20 > > Google Chrome is open source. If you're really worried that it might be > > secretly collecting data about you and sending it to Google .. >=20 > I just double-checked the thread, I could not see someone mentioning it: >=20 > http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > When you type URLs or queries in the address bar, the letters you type ar= e=20 > sent to Google so the Suggest feature can automatically recommend terms o= r=20 > URLs you may be looking for. If you choose to share usage statistics with= =20 > Google and you accept a suggested query or URL, Google Chrome will send= =20 > that information to Google as well. You can disable this feature as=20 > explained here. =20 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- >=20 > If I read it correctly: >=20 > _Every_ time you type into your ('conveniently' combined) URL/search=20 > field, it gets immediately send to Google. >=20 > 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). --=20 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:) --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkjGTX0ACgkQwo7hT/9lVdxZsQCfb+5vfcfG4CPXyvm2vuVwZdBf QxIAnRZXawNxWF587dJt6y423ke/HXmD =fuj5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --k1lZvvs/B4yU6o8G--