Chrome sends a suspicious tracking parameter on every Google search

Re:Chrome sends a suspicious tracking parameter on every Goo... by josteink on Saturday November 09, 2013 @09:18AM (#6701679)

Out of curiousity... Are all those options in Chromium too?

Does anyone know for certain what differences between Chromium and the closed-source Chrome is?

I find it very hard to trust a browser from the internet's biggest user-tracking- and ad-agency.

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Re:Chrome sends a suspicious tracking parameter on every Goo... by pearjuice on Saturday November 09, 2013 @11:11AM (#6701995)

These are the only options you can modify from the assigned UI for it (chrome://config). As far as I know, Chrome is the branded version of Chromium. Chromium development is done by open source contributions, but mostly they are on the Google payroll. What do they get from this? As you said: user-tracking so they can deliver even more targeted advertisements. It is great they also deliver a FOSS-ish browser, but there is only a small minority actually using Chromium. The majority gets to use Chrome which, due to Google branding, is vastly more popular.

Their search engine also greatly benefits from all the data hoarded.

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