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I find it hard to believe Chromium pings any less than Firefox. Would love to get more info on this.

Here you go: https://twitter.com/jonathansampson/status/11658588961766604...

> What I found were dozens of requests, which loaded nearly 16 MB in data. Lets break down what I saw.

> I also reviewed Google Chrome, for those interested: When I launched Google Chrome for the first time (and let it sit for a minute), 32 requests were made, and 7.26 MB of data downloaded.

Presumably Chromium would ping even less than Google Chrome.

Raw numbers mean nothing. Lots of these requests are totally benign.

Believe it. Firefox is kind of unbeaten in this regard.

There was a study carried out on what kinds of data leaks on browsers during launch [0] but Chromium specifically wasn't measured. I can only infer Safe browsing to be a leak point available on Chromium since it is shipped by default but I have it turned off (never needed it anyway) so I have not observed any pings related to it personally.

[0] https://www.scss.tcd.ie/Doug.Leith/pubs/browser_privacy.pdf

SafeBrowsing V2 only sends a partial hash to Google, only sending the full hash if the partial has a match. You can just read Chromium's whitepaper on their various features if you want to understand the privacy implications.

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