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by mintplant 3396 days ago
It's not on by default though, meaning most users will be passing data their browsing data through Google unencrypted. Not only tabs but cookies, full browser history...

I'm always surprised that no one seems to think this a big deal. People will install and recommend tracking-blocking extensions while allowing Google to hoover up all this data without a second thought.

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By default Google encrypts it. Its clearly in that picture
No, danielsamuels has manually changed that setting. The default is to only encrypt saved passwords: https://www.spinda.net/files/chromesync.png