You forgot:
-- keep reminding users that Google is literally an advertising company, that makes billions of dollars spying on everyone to sell hyper targeted ads.
Chrome is essentially spyware.
-- keep reminding users that Google is literally an advertising company, that makes billions of dollars spying on everyone to sell hyper targeted ads.
Chrome is essentially spyware.
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.)
This can be turned off.