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You forgot: -- keep reminding users that Google is literally an advertising company, that makes billions of dollars spying on everyone to sell hyper targeted a

• eitland 6y ago
  Yep. I forgot. So lets add: Every letter you type into the address bar in Chrome goes directly to Google[0][1]. If they don't log everything you ever put into the address bar it is either: - because of the goodness of their hearts (heh) - because they haven't gotten around to it yet - because the marginal privacy they could squeeze out from that isn't worth the complexity, storage and processing cost and the risk of getting caught red handed. PS: If I sound annoyed, yes I am. There's no one you despise more than those you used to love but who betrayed you, right? ;-) [0]: for autocomplete, but still true. [1]: this is true for the default settings in modern Firefox as well, but there I can always easily flick a setting and get ny search box back. (Maybe you can do something similar in Chrome as well but I don't know as I only ever use it for compability testing and for websites that just doesn't work in ny other browsers, -and I only do that if I have to and typically after complaining to whoever I can get hold of, just like I did with sites that only worked in IE.)
  • nnt38 6y ago
    > Every letter you type into the address bar in Chrome goes directly to Google This can be turned off.