From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 01:00:22 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 B49AD1065680 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:00:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BCC48FC13; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:00:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: <48C71C27.8030009@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:30:23 +0930 From: Kris Kennaway User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sergey Zaharchenko , Peter Ross , freebsd-chat@freebsd.org References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:00:22 -0000 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