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Would all non-US Chrome users scare that all their browsing data been sent back to US?
by taobility 8y ago
Would all non-US Chrome users scare that all their browsing data been sent back to US?
- codezero 8y agoThis sounds like a wild false equivalence.
- eastendguy 8y agoSure it would. If it is sent back, please link to some proof.
- fzzzy 8y agoUh, isn’t it widely known that every character you type in the address bar in chrome is sent to google? They wouldn’t be able to give you autocomplete results otherwise.
- Karunamon 8y agoThis is on a toggle switch that requires affirmative consent to enable the first time. So no, not the same thing.
- fzzzy 8y agoAre you talking about “Help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google”? Because that’s not what I am talking about. Even if you turn that off, autocomplete still works in the location bar. Type “h”, it offers to complete “Home Depot”, “Hotmail”, “Huntington Bank”, “Hurricane Florence”, and “Hungry Howies”. It does that by sending the character “h” to the google servers and getting back a list of results.
- drb91 8y agoWell, it’s a little less weird for chrome to have “legit” access to the browsing data. Why would AV software ever need that information?