Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:23 +0930 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Sergey Zaharchenko <doublef-ctm@yandex.ru>, Peter Ross <Peter.Ross@bogen.in-berlin.de>, freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome Message-ID: <48C71C27.8030009@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain>
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Sergey Zaharchenko wrote: > 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). Yes, firefox etc also does exactly the same thing. You can just disable it in the browser configuration. Kris
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