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Is there a Chrome extension that shows to the user what information exactly Chrome is sending home?

• misterman0 8y ago
  Imagine that the only thing that is reported to the Chrome backend is a client ID and a URL, which would be the only thing needed to render this app: https://myactivity.google.com https://myactivity.google.com Would you think of Google as trustworthy because they only gave their backend two pieces of data? I myself would not, because I'm pretty sure the actual request and response messages are looked up by client ID (in their Google Analytics data store).
• auslander 8y ago
  Give Google some privacy of what is being sent home :) Chrome (and Chromium) creates at start and maintains SSL connections to Google. It is not easy to sniff what is being sent. Even if you MITM it, like in enterprise transparent proxies, Chrome will throw an error because of cert pinning. google domains should be whitelisted: "we recommend that you avoid the use of transparent proxies." https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3504942?hl=en https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/3504942?hl=en
  • snaky 8y ago
    Seems like patching that out of binary would be trivial task. But I doubt the Chrome extension that would do that patching could stay at Chrome store.
    • auslander 8y ago
      Have a look https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium
      • snaky 8y ago
        There's also Bromium and some other Chromium forks and patchsets. I was talking about Chrome.