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According to wikipedia Google Chrome bundles: Randomly generated token included in installer. Used to measure success rate of Google Chrome once at install
by pippy 11y ago
According to wikipedia Google Chrome bundles:
Randomly generated token included in installer. Used to measure success rate of Google Chrome once at installation.[99]
Encoded string, according to Google, contains non-identifying information about where Chrome was downloaded from and its installation week, and is used to measure promotional campaigns.[99] Google provides the source code to decode this string.[95] On Google search query On first launch and first use of address bar[99] Optional.
Unique identifier along with user preferences, logs of usage metrics and crashes. default disabled
Text typed into the address bar. Optional
Information about how often Chrome is used, details about the OS and Chrome version. used on update
None of these things are "Stealing users data". From what I can see, you have to go out of your way to even send usage metrics and crashes to Google. All of these tracking metrics are similar, if not identical, to what other major browsers are currently doing.
- josteink 11y agoI think you misunderstand me. See comment thread here for classification: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631843 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10631843