Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring

Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by HappyFunGuy on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:29PM (#12112599)

Am I correct in assuming that chrome is now a keylogger in regards to your url bar, and perhaps clipboard?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by mccr8 on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:52PM (#12112674)

Chrome sends things you type in the URL bar to Google to do prediction:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656?hl=en

From that page it sounds like it is on by default.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by frognition on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:49PM (#12112657)

Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by HappyFunGuy on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:50PM (#12112662)

What good browser is free of this horror?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by JJJollyjim on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:05PM (#12112705)

Firefox prompts you before even turning on search prediction, and it asks you about telemetry at first startup.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by reitanqild on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:17PM (#12112910)

For people like me Firefox offer the best of both worlds:

* No google keylogger in the main url bar (but local autocomplete based on previous history, bookmarks etc)

* access to autocomplete in search field next to url bar (I think removing this was one of the simplifications in the original Chrome.)

Ctrl-L: go to url bar

Ctrl-K: go to search field

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by gpm on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:53PM (#12112679)

Firefox?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by fermuch on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:45PM (#12112827)

Qutebrowser.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by arm on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:22PM (#12112926)

qutebrowser¹ is fantastic. I just wish it had more ways to block trackers on webpages (other than just completely disabling JavaScript—even being able to whitelist JavaScript on certain hostnames would be a huge start).

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¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by Trundle on Sunday July 17, 2016 @08:57PM (#12112693)

Chromium?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by kminehart on Sunday July 17, 2016 @09:11PM (#12112719)

Is it though?

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by mmel on Sunday July 17, 2016 @10:01PM (#12112865)

It is, if you don't sign the browser into Google, disable all telemetry and prediction options, and use a non-Google search engine.

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Re:Google will use Chrome browsing data for ad tailoring by lagadu on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:00AM (#12115055)

Technically anything that displays real-time search suggestions as you type is a keylogger, Firefox's included.

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