[teleproto]

Citation needed.

Google Analytcs and ads are so widely that most of your browsing will be tracked regardless of browser, even regardless of your search engine (but the search engine is also quite major since they can track what you were trying to search for before jumping into the web).

But there's also a privacy policy explaining what chrome actually sends: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/privacy/

[freehunter]

>Citation needed.

A company known for tracking the ever-loving shit out of everyone across the Internet distributes a best-in-class web browser absolutely for free. If that's not enough, I really hope you're able to hold on to that innocence as you start using the Internet more and more in the future.

[JamesFM]

Sorry to go off on you because this is a larger issue then your comment but seriously, can we hold this discussion to a higher standard?

Prove to me that Google is tracking me through Chrome. Link me to an article with proof of collection.

Most of us our developers here, surely we can apply some more rigor to this conversation then “we know Google is doing this because it’s Google”.

[asadotzler]

If you sign in to Chrome, your history is game for ad matching according to Google https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/165139

[JamesFM]

Sure, but if you sign into your Google account on any browser it does the same thing.

It's not unique to Chrome. There are additional sync options that are available to Chrome, but those are all opt in.

[ryanpollock]

just sign into Chrome, and visit myactivity.google.com

you'll see your browsing history, which unless you have a preference turned off deep within settings, Google may then use to target advertising.

[fasdf33]

Their point is that Chrome isn't sending all the data and their privacy policy for CHROME points this out.

This isn't difficult to test: sandbox default chrome in a VM and see what happens.

But they don't need to because of your point. uMatrix makes it plenty clear all your bits are belong to Google.

[jorvi]

I hope he doesn't. The biggest problem for privacy is the completely ingorant knowledge/attitude the vast amount of people has towards it.

[yuhong]

It is worth mentioning Chromium is open source too.

[Sylos]

And known to contain questionable things.

https://github.com/Eloston/ungoogled-chromium

[yuhong]

The point is how it compares to Firefox though.

[yjftsjthsd-h]

And the answer, particularly in light of the above link, is that compared to Firefox it falls utterly short.

[skinnymuch]

The github repo shows it compares poorly to Firefox for privacy.