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I noticed awhile back that even if you disable Chrome's safe browsing feature, Google still sends data to their server. I'm not sure if this is still the case today.

http://superuser.com/questions/236637/how-to-disable-google-...

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Yep, this still appears to be the case. It establishes a long-lived SSL connection to one Google's servers few seconds after the start. If the connection is forcefully killed (e.g. with SysInternal's TcpView), it won't be re-established, but needing to kill it every time I need to use Chrome is really annoying.

It is also the reason why I have Chrome updates permanently disabled - I don't trust Chrome enough to let it run anything in a background.

Can you file a bug at http://new.crbug.com/ please? That doesn't sound like the behavior I'd expect.

Sorry, I can't. It wants me to log in with Google ID which I don't and won't have.

Why the hell am I at -1?

Do enlighten me how can I file a bug report against Chrome if I don't have and don't want to create a Google ID.

Ok. Would you mind dropping me an email (mkwst@chromium.org) with details? I'm happy to file the ticket for you.

Well... :) That would require setting up a dummy email account and what not, and that's a bit too much hassle. It'd be far more prudent if you'd remove Google ID requirement in front of the bug repository. I frankly don't understand why it is needed in the first place, at least for browsing the repo that is.

you can browse just fine: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/list

I'm pretty sure all the browser bugtrackers require an account to file a bug.

Can you file a bug at http://new.crbug.com/ please? That doesn't sound like the behavior I'd expect.

The behavior you expect out of Chrome is just simply not what its actual behavior is.

Asa Dotzler from Mozilla corrects some of your misconceptions here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3034450.

EDIT: Oh, I see you're actually on the Chrome team. I learned the stuff Asa that describes in his comment in your privacy policy. It's pretty easy to understand.

That should definitely not be happening. If you're seeing this behavior please provide file a bug with full details at the following URL: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Pri...

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