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Old September 5, 2008, 02:48 PM
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I think its great that you are having a good experiance with Chrome,but I think you missed the point the point of that article. It's not just what you search for its Google tracking browsing habits etc and what they can do with the information they keep.
As it stands in its default settings any information entered into Chrome with Google as the default search engine they will have access to keystrokes typed into the browsers Omnibox even before you strike the enter key!
To improve partial searches, common spelling mistakes etc.

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Like i said before that just does not sit well with me at all and Google are getting to big for their boots.
I bet I can give you many more things to be paranoid about, much more intrusive things , like microsoft's ability to remove any software from your pc remotely, or install windows updates when auto updates been disabled, without your knowledge.

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For the Record i am NOT American and really am not bothered about the US elections but this adds a little fuel to the topic.....



Google Shuts Down Anti-Obama Sites on its Blogger Platform | NewsBusters.org
Again, google can't say no to the gov, thats the issue not google.
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