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Hope there's an opt out. I can imagine all this web history coming back to bite some day.

For example during a murder trial: "And is it true Mr X, that you browsed the page 'Top 10 amusing CSI murder strategies" "Yes, but.." "And was number 6 not the exact method used to murder Ms Y?" Jury murmers in disapproval

It's like numerology, the more data points you have the higher than odds of finding a couple of data points that coincidentally line up, all in a conveniently subpoena friendly Google data centre.

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You have to explicitly enable it in chrome://flags - the default is off. So, yes, there is definitely an opt out!

Can we run our own proxies? That would be a good compromise - and we could tunnel SSL to our own servers safely and privately.

This guy did: http://00f.net/2012/06/02/mod-pagespeed-as-a-proxy-for-your-...

And so did this guy: http://vincent.bernat.im/en/blog/2011-mobile-browsing-conten...

You could even take mod_pagespeed and start selling your own competing optimizing proxy; it's open source.

(Evil idea: run an optimizing proxy in a part of the world with very slow or expensive-per-byte internet and make money via ad insertion or replacement.)

Now to figure out how to combine this with mod_spdy.

Its because it's in testing stages. I'm pretty sure that if it works well, it'll just be default, and you'll be able to optout in chrome://flags (which most regular people don't know about anyways)

Well, I guess it's also possible to promote that to a more user friendly setting.

You also need to disable Chrome from auto-suggesting websites based on the URL you're typing. And take care not to use Google search. Or visit any pages with Google ads / analytics / CDN hosted files. Or use their DNS services. Or use Google Fiber or any of their public wifi. Or be in sight of anyone using Google Glass.

Or simply use tor?

Solution: use a different browser. Other browsers on Android do have certain benefits. Opera has userscripts, Firefox has add-ons.

Well, you would probably reach that page from a Google search anyway.

You might want to consider not to murder someone.

You completely missed the point. The point is that it could be evidence used against him when falsely accused of murder.

Right, I stand corrected, I guess I read the comment too quickly.

It's (currently, at least) opt-in.

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