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In theory, Chrome sends your entire browsing history over to Google, since its unified omnibar doesn't distinguish between searching and typing in location. Fir
by mediumdeviation 14y ago
In theory, Chrome sends your entire browsing history over to Google, since its unified omnibar doesn't distinguish between searching and typing in location. Firefox (and any browser that separates the location and search bar) doesn't have this problem.
To be frank I'm not sure how Google uses this information, but it does make me laugh when the whole Ubuntu Dash searches Amazon thing blew up. It's the same thing, really, yet nobody talks about Chrome at all.
- jmillikin 14y agoThe chrome settings page links to https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=180655&p=settings_instant_policy https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an... , which links to http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-suggest.html http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/update-to-google-sugg... . If I remember correctly, the default configuration of Chrome is to have prediction enabled and Chrome Instant disabled, so the relevant section of the policy is: """Whenever you pause while typing in the address bar, the text you've typed is sent to Google so predictions can be retrieved. Google logs a random two percent of these requests in order to help improve the service. This information is anonymized within 24 hours. """