[HappyFunGuy]

Am I correct in assuming that chrome is now a keylogger in regards to your url bar, and perhaps clipboard?

[mccr8]

Chrome sends things you type in the URL bar to Google to do prediction:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656?hl=en

From that page it sounds like it is on by default.

[frognition]

Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.

[HappyFunGuy]

What good browser is free of this horror?

[JJJollyjim]

Firefox prompts you before even turning on search prediction, and it asks you about telemetry at first startup.

[reitanqild]

For people like me Firefox offer the best of both worlds:

* No google keylogger in the main url bar (but local autocomplete based on previous history, bookmarks etc)

* access to autocomplete in search field next to url bar (I think removing this was one of the simplifications in the original Chrome.)

Ctrl-L: go to url bar

Ctrl-K: go to search field

[gpm]

Firefox?

[fermuch]

Qutebrowser.

[arm]

qutebrowser¹ is fantastic. I just wish it had more ways to block trackers on webpages (other than just completely disabling JavaScript—even being able to whitelist JavaScript on certain hostnames would be a huge start).

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¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/

[Trundle]

Chromium?

[kminehart]

Is it though?

[mmel]

It is, if you don't sign the browser into Google, disable all telemetry and prediction options, and use a non-Google search engine.

[lagadu]

Technically anything that displays real-time search suggestions as you type is a keylogger, Firefox's included.