Since the release of Chrome, it has been found that Google’s new browser is sending data on your web habits back to Google regardless of if you actually hit the enter key to go to that website you’ve entered into the address bar/omnibox. It is rather easy to disable but Google themselves didn’t release this information. It took some digging around by some rather top shelf bloggers to find this information. Not to mention, that disabling the “info send” prevents me from using Chrome the way I would otherwise want to.
Google, while I’m not sure if I can trust you with the keeping track of the websites I visit, a lot of other people do and I just hope you don’t “go evil” on us.
The url hashes that help determine illicit from legit websites are not an issue, as I have been using Firefox for a very long time now. I actually find that aspect helpful.
I don’t believe for one moment that keeping ip addresses along with collected data is necessary. You really don’t want the EFF up your craw for too long. You were implicitly trusted for so long. (You have the bulk of my email, what are you doing with all that?) You have the right to keep track of ip addresses that visit google.com for a google search or two, but I say that you don’t have the right to collect and collate info in your browser of users web traffic that is going elsewhere other then google.com only because we’re using your browser.
I say this is a bad play Google, and while I don’t expect you to change this behavior in Chrome any time soon if ever, I think I’ll just uninstall it and keep it that way
Posted by John B 
Posted by John B 
