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NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes Current Language en-US Hotword Previous Language en-US Hotword Search Enabled No Always-on Hotword Search Enabled No Hotword Audio Logging Enabled No

What now?

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Go to chrome://settings/

Uncheck: Enable "Ok Google" to start a voice search.

Which is no longer an option.

What version are you running? Do you have Google as your default search engine? If not, the toggle disappears.

Thanks. I didn't realize this was the case.

So I have Chrome installed (although I don't use it as my primary) and I checked...

NaCl Enabled Yes Microphone Yes Audio Capture Allowed Yes

In Settings my 'Ok Google' is (and was) unchecked. What gives?

"Hotword Search Enabled" is the one you are interested in.

I have the exact same settings in chrome://voicesearch/ as nakedrobot2 but my "Ok Google" setting was already off.

From chrome://voicesearch/:

NaCl Enabled Yes

Microphone Yes

Audio Capture Allowed Yes

From chrome://settings/ under the Search heading, "Enable 'Ok Google' to start a voice search" is unchecked and has always been unchecked.

That doesn't work, it is still enabled under the voice search ;)

FYI I'm running Chrome 43.0.x on OS X 10.10.3 and Enable "Ok Google" is disabled under chrome://settings. I don't remember ever enabling it, so this behavior is correct.

If you're running Chromium: Re-install with the opt-out flag.

If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

> If you're runnning Google Chrome: Weep.

I metaphorically did. Then I closed Chrome and tabbed back to my Firefox window.

This feels like I had an Amazon Echo dropped by my house, plugged in, and then shoved behind a book on the shelf so that I wouldn't see it. Ethics be damned.

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