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What makes you think it's scanning, and not e.g. preloading items from disk cache into RAM? Maybe run it under strace and see what it's accessing?

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Agree, without some solid syslog/trace evidence there is no reason to believe thid wild claim.

The evidence is that chrome scans and uploads data about all the processes on your computer, and they tell you about this via a hidden setting in your browser options. Go check if you use chrome! It's enabled by default.

I'm not talking about the HD running on startup... It runs when the browser is not doing anything at all, for stunningly long periods of time... There is no way that much data could be loading into RAM.

Chrome also used to do this under a separate process called "Software Quality Monitor", but now it does not show in task manager as a separate process.

I'm not hallucinating nor BS-ing, it's a real thing.

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