> My analysis is: they only send information back to Google when you explicitly request it. your very shallow analysis. they update the browser hourly. you d

> My analysis is: they only send information back to Google when you explicitly request it. your very shallow analysis. they update the browser hourly. you do not have access to the build environment they use. and there's no authority linking the source you can read and the binary you allow google to install. so unless you build it yourself, not a valid argument. and even if there's no evil doing in all that (i too believe there isn't. but again, only believe) there's still the issue of new features being added, and the bad defaults being to agree with all data sharing. So even if its all good, after each update you will be inadvertently sharing your information until you take time to review all settings. And, there's also the cases when google simply decide agains some feature that may hurt them. They removed the options to not send referrer. it was added back several times. and removed again several times. first in command line argument, then hidden setting. when i stopped caring it was completely gone if not from compile time.