Tracking Details
Google Chrome's user tracking capabilities include, but are not necessarily limited to the following:
Installation. Upon installation, Google Chrome sends a randomly generated token from the installer back to Google. This is used to measure the success rate of Chrome installations. This feature is non-optional.
RLZ Identifier. An encoded string that, according to Google, contains non-identifying bits of information about where Chrome was downloaded from and when it was installed. It is transmitted to Google upon the first launch, first use of the address bar, and first Google search query. The collected information is used to measure the success of promotional campaigns. This feature is non-optional, but Google does provide the necessary source code to decode the string.
ClientID. A unique identifier coupled with user preferences, logs of usages metrics, and crashes. This feature is optional and disabled by default.
OmniBox Predictions. Any text typed into the address bar is sent to Google. This feature is optional, but enabled by default.
Page-Not-Found Web Service. Upon receiving a server not found response, the query typed into the address bar is sent to Google. This feature is optional, but enabled by default.
Spell-Checking Web Service. Any text typed is transmitted to Google. This feature is optional and disabled by default.
Google Update. Data concerning the user's Chrome usage, operating system details, and Chrome version is transmitted to Google periodically. This feature is non-optional.
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Chromium
You can literally disable all the botnet, why haven't you switched yet?
Tl;dr It's useful. Why do people care so much about internet privacy? No one is that important.
>>52017149
Said the guy wearing clothes while having his curtains closed.
Bro, come on now. You value your privacy alright.
>disable
Having those things in the first place makes ne distrust Google completely.
>>52017159
You missed the "online" part.
>>52017149
https://youtu.be/dNZrq2iK87k?t=6m47s
>>52017196
>I won't let my mailman read my mail in real life, but Google can read my e-mails all they want in the "virtual world"
Solid.
>>52017286
You want me to watch a two hour video on conspiracies?
I got conspiracies too breh. Watch this shit, 18 part series on the Illuminati in the music industry.
https://youtu.be/eZ9MprYzxyA
>>52017194
firefox has them as well, it even uses google safe search
>>52017373
If my mail man used my information to make my life easier, gave me relevant ads which I can opt out of and let me mail for free then why not?
Also this anology sucks for obvious reasons.
>>52017429
>your mailman reads your mail
>find a word "chinese food" somewhere deep in the letter that you have sent to your gran gran
>suddenly you get chinese restaurant flyers with your mail every day... about 25-30 of them
>you decide to "opt out" of preferred/targeted advertising
>you start receiving general flyers every day... 50-60 of them, mostly about Viagra
>mailman still reads your mail
Hmm.
>>52017472
Stop the analogy please. It's trash. To close an advert I don't even have to move from my chair. Disposing of 50 flyers is much harder. How is that even close the same thing wtf! And the algorithm doesn't even work like that.
Fyi Ad block exists if you don't want ads. So any actual reasons besides this mail man crap?
>>52017573
>Stop the analogy please
>privacy in real life and privacy online are two absolutely and entirely different things, you guis!
>I close my curtains when I jerk off so my neighbors don't see, but I gladly let Google watch :^)
Oy vey.
>>52017375
>HOPE
>Conspiracy
Agree. Edward Snowden is a falseflag too
>>52017635
They are and I pointed out several reasons why.
I'd be flattered if Google cared enough to watch me her off.
Give me actual reasons and not silly comparisons.
>jewgle
