http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/privacy-concerns-over-chrome-omnibox/ Upgrade Your Lifestyle Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:30:12 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/privacy-concerns-over-chrome-omnibox/#comment-57326 nmw Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:25:01 +0000 #comment-57326 Note that Google chrome also downloads a list of website "hash codes" every 30 minutes from google.com, and if you try to visit a website on the list (whether via the bar or via a link), the browser will send that information to Google.com (this is purportedly in order to protect against "security threats", but when I asked about it on Matt Cutt's blog, he did not respond to my question -- so there is definitely cause to be worried about Google's motives concerning how the company seeks to track the web surfing habits of Google chrome users). Note that Google chrome also downloads a list of website “hash codes” every 30 minutes from google.com, and if you try to visit a website on the list (whether via the bar or via a link), the browser will send that information to Google.com (this is purportedly in order to protect against “security threats”, but when I asked about it on Matt Cutt's blog, he did not respond to my question — so there is definitely cause to be worried about Google's motives concerning how the company seeks to track the web surfing habits of Google chrome users).

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