From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 01:16:03 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 E619A106564A for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:16:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from mail.lonelyplanet.com.au (mail.lonelyplanet.com.au [203.166.32.192]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33B848FC1C for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:16:02 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from Garuda.lpint.net ([10.61.0.88]) by mail.lonelyplanet.com.au with InterScan Message Security Suite; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:16:01 +1000 Received: from klein.bigpond.com ([10.61.20.65]) by Garuda.lpint.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:15:34 +1000 Received: from klein.bigpond.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])by klein.bigpond.com (8.14.2/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m8A1Fsjg001801; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:15:54 +1000 (EST)(envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) Received: from localhost (petros@localhost)by klein.bigpond.com (8.14.2/8.14.2/Submit) with ESMTP id m8A1Frr2001798;Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:15:54 +1000 (EST)(envelope-from Peter.Ross@alumni.tu-berlin.de) X-Authentication-Warning: klein.au.lpint.net: petros owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:15:52 +1000 (EST) From: Peter Ross X-X-Sender: petros@klein.bigpond.com To: Sergey Zaharchenko In-Reply-To: <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> Message-ID: <20080910110539.E1675@klein.bigpond.com> References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com><20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Sep 2008 01:15:34.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9D2AB30:01C912E2] X-imss-version: 2.051 X-imss-result: Passed X-imss-scanInfo: M:P L:E SM:0 X-imss-tmaseResult: TT:0 TS:0.0000 TC:00 TRN:0 TV:5.5.1027(16148.003) X-imss-scores: Clean:99.90000 C:1 M:6 S:5 R:5 X-imss-settings: Baseline:2 C:1 M:2 S:2 R:1 (0.1500 0.1500) 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: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:16:04 -0000 Hi Sergey, On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, Sergey Zaharchenko wrote: > Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 05:56:05PM +1000 you wrote: > > > _Every_ time you type into your ('conveniently' combined) URL/search > > field, it gets immediately send to Google. > > 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). Correct me if I am wrong: Firefox only contacts Google if DNS fails. AFAIK as long as you have a valid URL it does not go to Google. Google Chrome sends an event every time you type into the URL/Search field (using Javascript) so Google can make suggestions while you are typing. So _every_ URL is sent to them. Yes, I know that you can use tor. But the most users will not do it. As most don't care about changing defaults at all. So if Chrome becomes widely used, Google harvests the browsing history of millions of users. Regards Peter