> you are not allowed to look at what exactly they are sending or not sending What? I can absolutely look at network traffic on my device. People do this... al

> you are not allowed to look at what exactly they are sending or not sending What? I can absolutely look at network traffic on my device. People do this... all the time. There are plenty of reports of Chrome traffic - many of them being people mistakenly believing that Chrome is doing something malicious when it isn't. I don't believe that Google is incentivized to use host-based instrumentation to do their collection. The cost is quite high for them to do that. Much easier for them to rely on Google Analytics, Search, and various other web-based tracking mechanisms.