johndoe41571
Junior Member
This is not related to the earlier EULA fiasco. Best to download a packet sniffer and prove all of this for/to yourself!
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1373...6.html?tag=mncol;title
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2...-worse-than-you-think/
Google (a so called "do no evil" company) which has been awarded the all time Internet WORST possibly Rating by International Privacy (IP gave Google the "hostile to privacy" rating...) has recently come out with a new browser called Chrome. While still in "beta" it has already made its way to the massess as a convenient download link through Google Updater/Installer provided on the MAIN GOOGLE.COM homepage.
Just days go the German government have issued a warning to citizens using Google Chrome. Here?s a quote from German news Tagesschau (translated);
?The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung.?
If you use Google Chrome, Google will know every URL you type into the address/location bar. More than that, they will know (almost) every partial URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know every word or phrase you type into the location bar, even if you type it and then delete it before pressing enter. More than that, all this information can be linked with your main Google account, because Google sends your cookie along with every automatic search it performs from the location bar. Chrome will use the cookie of whatever Google account you are currently logged into.
No other browser that I know of uses an automatic search/suggest feature in the location bar. The location bar is where you type the address of the site you want to navigate to. Firefox uses a suggest feature in the search bar. It makes sense to do it there. Google.com now has auto suggest on their homepage. It makes sense there too. Now it makes sense to also have it in the location bar in terms of a nice helpful feature. But in terms of privacy I think this is a new low. I think Google should, at the least, not be sending your cookie out with these searches. But even then they could be connected to you by IP.
Don?t believe me? Go download the Wireshark packet sniffer and do some tests for yourself.
I?m sure there?s a team of Google data mining engineers somewhere who are giddy as crap about having all this information once Chrome becomes more widespread.
What this all boils down to is this: It used to be the case when we wanted to go to a particular site we could bypass Google's radar by not searching for it and just typing DIRECTLY into the address/location bar... Now with GOOGLE CHROME even that has changed! Google sees EVERYTHING, even if we use bookmarks, or type the URL directly into the address/location bar all the sites and our IP and cookies are sent to Google servers for permanent storage and we cannot effectively clear our "history" because now our history is located in Google Servers forever!!!
Now I'm sure in the future if the Governments want to know which people are active on sites that they have on their "list" they can just go to Google and ask: Hey Google will you give me a list of everyone (username, ip address, browser configuartion, etc) who has visited abc.com, etc???) Then Google can easily had over that information, all it has to do is reference the site and all corresponding IP address that has ever visited the site,
all because of things like Google Analytics, Googleapis, Google Chrome, Google Custom Search, Google Desktop3, Google Grand Central, Google StreetView, Google 411, iGoogle, Google Open Social, Google Andriod, Google Gears, Google Docs, Google Calendars, Gmail, Gtalk, etc...etc...
Most sites these days has google-analytics that tracks me and collects information for GOOGLE even when I'm not on a Google owned property or website, not to mention googlesyndicated.con (good thing I use adblocker plus and noscript !!!) also these days most sites internal search is offshored to "Google Custom Search" so what I search within a non google site goes straight to Mr Google as well.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1373...6.html?tag=mncol;title
http://coderrr.wordpress.com/2...-worse-than-you-think/
Google (a so called "do no evil" company) which has been awarded the all time Internet WORST possibly Rating by International Privacy (IP gave Google the "hostile to privacy" rating...) has recently come out with a new browser called Chrome. While still in "beta" it has already made its way to the massess as a convenient download link through Google Updater/Installer provided on the MAIN GOOGLE.COM homepage.
Just days go the German government have issued a warning to citizens using Google Chrome. Here?s a quote from German news Tagesschau (translated);
?The Federal Office for Information Security warned internet users of the new browser Chrome. The application by the company Google should not be used for surfing the internet, as a spokesperson for the office told the Berliner Zeitung.?
If you use Google Chrome, Google will know every URL you type into the address/location bar. More than that, they will know (almost) every partial URL you type into the location bar. More than that, they will know every word or phrase you type into the location bar, even if you type it and then delete it before pressing enter. More than that, all this information can be linked with your main Google account, because Google sends your cookie along with every automatic search it performs from the location bar. Chrome will use the cookie of whatever Google account you are currently logged into.
No other browser that I know of uses an automatic search/suggest feature in the location bar. The location bar is where you type the address of the site you want to navigate to. Firefox uses a suggest feature in the search bar. It makes sense to do it there. Google.com now has auto suggest on their homepage. It makes sense there too. Now it makes sense to also have it in the location bar in terms of a nice helpful feature. But in terms of privacy I think this is a new low. I think Google should, at the least, not be sending your cookie out with these searches. But even then they could be connected to you by IP.
Don?t believe me? Go download the Wireshark packet sniffer and do some tests for yourself.
I?m sure there?s a team of Google data mining engineers somewhere who are giddy as crap about having all this information once Chrome becomes more widespread.
What this all boils down to is this: It used to be the case when we wanted to go to a particular site we could bypass Google's radar by not searching for it and just typing DIRECTLY into the address/location bar... Now with GOOGLE CHROME even that has changed! Google sees EVERYTHING, even if we use bookmarks, or type the URL directly into the address/location bar all the sites and our IP and cookies are sent to Google servers for permanent storage and we cannot effectively clear our "history" because now our history is located in Google Servers forever!!!
Now I'm sure in the future if the Governments want to know which people are active on sites that they have on their "list" they can just go to Google and ask: Hey Google will you give me a list of everyone (username, ip address, browser configuartion, etc) who has visited abc.com, etc???) Then Google can easily had over that information, all it has to do is reference the site and all corresponding IP address that has ever visited the site,
all because of things like Google Analytics, Googleapis, Google Chrome, Google Custom Search, Google Desktop3, Google Grand Central, Google StreetView, Google 411, iGoogle, Google Open Social, Google Andriod, Google Gears, Google Docs, Google Calendars, Gmail, Gtalk, etc...etc...
Most sites these days has google-analytics that tracks me and collects information for GOOGLE even when I'm not on a Google owned property or website, not to mention googlesyndicated.con (good thing I use adblocker plus and noscript !!!) also these days most sites internal search is offshored to "Google Custom Search" so what I search within a non google site goes straight to Mr Google as well.
