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Re:Delete Facebook Account by sleavey on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:45AM (#15160172)
Wait, Chrome logs your browsing history with Google? Actually, I'm not surprised.
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Re:Delete Facebook Account by sam_goody on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:27AM (#15160308)
Aside for the browser storage, they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes.

The same profiling is done from Safari and other Chromium / Blink browsers that have the "awesome address bar"

I have read that when you visit a page with Analytics (which is like everywhere) Chrome has special handling so as to give them a more complete dataset without it being the browser that is officially collecting it.

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Re:Delete Facebook Account by djmobley on Sunday September 03, 2017 @05:32AM (#15160506)
I think you're confusing the address bar autocomplete functionality with something more sinister.

It's simple and straightforward to disable the autocomplete functionality in Chrome.

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Re:Delete Facebook Account by ryanwaggoner on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:39AM (#15161632)
they also log every search request made from your browser. Since the only way to type a URL is to put it into the search bar, that means they get a log of every page you visit, how often you go there, how long yu spend there, etc. without triggering any other licenses or boxes.

Not sure I follow. Why can't chrome just detect whether you entered a URL or not? If URL, load without sending to Google. If not a URL, send as search to Google.

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Re:Delete Facebook Account by Macha on Sunday September 03, 2017 @10:52AM (#15161707)
facebook is not a url. facebook.com is. You need to type the first as part of typing the second.
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Re:Delete Facebook Account by Filligree on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:56AM (#15160217)
Encrypted, yes. It's so you can sync to other browsers.
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Re:Delete Facebook Account by Fnoord on Sunday September 03, 2017 @04:53AM (#15160383)
Right, encrypted.

And who can decrypt that?

In Firefox, back when it was introduced in Fennec somewhere around 2007 or 2008 (I don't know how it is now), you'd need 2 passwords. One to log in to your Firefox account and gain access to your encrypted data, and one to decrypt the data. It is feasible a nationstate can get access to your encrypted data, but it isn't feasible they are able to decrypt your data.

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