I'll add that I can't find a report of this issue upstream on the Chromium issue tracker. :/ If we remember the hotword detection issue from a few months ago,

I'll add that I can't find a report of this issue upstream on the Chromium issue tracker. :/ If we remember the hotword detection issue from a few months ago, once the issue was filed, Chrome engineers responded rather quickly. (As of today, hotword detection is 100% removed not just from Chromium but Chrome as well). If anyone can reproduce this issue, I'd like to help getting it filed so we can determine what's going on. Edit: We've found the upstream issue: http://crbug.com/498272 http://crbug.com/498272 In it, we've isolated two separate pings in this scenario. One is to grab an experiment status; we're looking into if this is neccessary. The other ping is for the component updater, to evaluate if your Chrome extensions should be updated. Neither of these pings report what sites you are visiting to Google.