> Chrome sends every URL or key stroke in the URL bar home in the guise of checking if they are search terms, and nothing short of not using Chrome helps that.

> Chrome sends every URL or key stroke in the URL bar home in the guise of checking if they are search terms, and nothing short of not using Chrome helps that. I believe you're referring to DNS prefetching [1], which is mentioned in the guide. I'm curious to know how you're determining that something is "pinging Google every few minutes". Maybe you could open a Github issue and I'll investigate it for the guide. It's definitely good to enumerate Chrome's behavior w.r.t. privacy. 1. https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-prefetching https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/dns-pre...