[glitchdout]

If you are logged into Chrome and use `!g`, yes. You can even check it at https://history.google.com/history/

In the past that page would even discriminate searches made with DuckDuckGo. They recently redesigned the History page to fit their Material Design look.

I would hope that when I'm logged out, Chrome would not track me... And what about Chromium?

[hrehhf]

> I would hope that when I'm logged out, Chrome would not track me

There's several more settings under Advanced Settings -> Privacy: "Learn more" links to https://support.google.com/chrome/?p=settings_privacy

-Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors

-Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar or the app launcher search box

-Prefetch resources to load pages more quickly

-Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google

-Enable phishing and malware protection

-Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors

-Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google

All of these send info back to Google and can be used for tracking even when logged out. Not to mention the usual tracking in any browser. And this is just what they are up-front about.

[yohui]

Currently, it seems only the first three plus phishing/malware protection are enabled by default. The phishing/malware protection is also used by Firefox's "Safe Browsing" feature: Firefox uses a local blocklist to check for potentially malicious sites, so you only connect to Google to update the blocklist and double-check when you actually run into a site on the blocklist; Chrome does the same.

See: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-does-phishing-and-m...

Prefetch makes local predictions and connects to any site, not Google in particular AFAIK.

The omnibar prediction service uses your default search engine, so Google is only involved if you've left it as such.

So if you take the obvious steps of changing your search engine and signing out of Google, that leaves only the navigation error service. As with safe browsing, this appears to send URLs to Google only if certain local conditions are met.