From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 10 01:29:58 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 1F220106564A for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:29:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.239]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 043048FC0A for ; Wed, 10 Sep 2008 01:29:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from murray@stokely.org) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so3014322rvf.43 for ; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.166.21 with SMTP id o21mr358230rve.167.1221010197568; Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.140.162.20 with HTTP; Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:29:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2a7894eb0809091829s4ebb75fco20a65bd84eca5d2b@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 18:29:57 -0700 From: "Murray Stokely" To: "Peter Ross" In-Reply-To: <20080910110539.E1675@klein.bigpond.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <86od2ykj17.fsf@ds4.des.no> <20080909174401.Q1857@klein.bigpond.com> <20080909101838.GA2645@shark.localdomain> <20080910110539.E1675@klein.bigpond.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org, Sergey Zaharchenko 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 01:29:58 -0000 On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:15 PM, Peter Ross wrote: > 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. All search companies with toolbars already harvest the browsing history of millions of users. Most toolbars have a similar suggest feature, which consumers find enormously useful, but can turn off it they don't want to give away that information. Your ISP also sees your entire browsing history, but turning that off with Tor or something is much harder. More details about all the cases when Chrome communicates with a Google server are enumerated in a blog post here : http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ - Murray