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Comment by dannyw | Hacker News Reader

Google needs to take action here. From requiring re-confirming permissions every time a significant privacy policy change is made, or just by nuking SimilarWeb altogether from the web App Store.

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I can already see the followup HN news: "Google attacking developers on Chrome Web Store and breaking free web!"

Yeah one thing Google doesn't do is collect info about what you do on the internet and sell it to other people.

https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

More seriously: if Stylish concerns you, Chrome should too.

Google indeed doesn't sell info to other people. (It does collect it though.)

Good point, I should say sell /access to/ (via DoubleClick, AdWords and their other sources of revenue)

Is there a definitive list anywhere of what Chrome collects and where it goes?

There have been rumours forever, but I'm interested in verifiable facts.

If you're logged in, which Chrome strongly encourages, it's your entire browsing history. See the URL above.

Thanks, but what I'm really trying to ask here is what a vanilla Chrome installation does. If someone just installs Chrome, leaves all settings as defaults, and doesn't opt in to anything, what data is being sent back to the mothership? I've never managed to find a convincing answer to that question.

It collects it for the purpose of building a better advertising profile of you- so it can make more money from ads. It’s still using my data about me and making money off of it.

Not to complain about downmodding - I can afford to loose the karma - but this threads a little unusual in terms of comments summing up Google's business model (which most people on HN should be aware of) going from highly upmodded to highly downmodded.

In case you weren't aware of how prescient your comment is:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17453471

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