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I was wondering about number 4. Does Chromium currently have the same behavior?

Yes, Chromium has this same behavior.

ungoogled-chromium is a project that removes Google integration from Chromium. Here is the patch they use to remove this special treatment of Google sites:

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium/blob/master/pa...

Eh, so doubleclick.net, ad network extraordinaire, gets special treatment as a "Google host" as well? Eww.

Google owns Doubleclick since 2007, shouldn't be a surprise.

Thanks! That's surprisingly short.

Now the question is how those IsGoogle functions are used in storage handling.

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