Chrome is spying on you?

[Daenth]

Well after a campout I had with my family, my uncle was talking about computers, and we fell on the topic of which browsers we use. Well he works with Google and knows about chrome a lot and he said Chrome spy's on you... They watch all the websites you go to, and literally sell you to a company for advertising, they can also monitor which accounts you go on, but fortunately not the passwords you use. I have noticed more and more "World of Warcraft" ads popping up everywhere now with Chrome, so I'm thinking this is true...
Discuss.

[Ad Bot]

[Paw]

:OSHT

[zz_tophat]

Old news.

For me anyway, I can see how many would not know, as most people search for information on Google.

[Bisjac]

its so google adds can be giving out to certain people instead of at random. not a bad thing.

and you can disable it all anyways if you want. grow up.

[zz_tophat]

So, Google Chrome is here. It is fast, minimalist and nice but, without you knowing, could hide something suspicious. As a matter of fact, lately in the Internet there has been a piece of news, that if true, could change the way you look at Chrome forever. An italian blog has recently tested Chrome by using a program called SilkPerformer. During such a test a web address was typed in Chrome. At this point the program started recording a weird activity. A lot of requests were sent through the Internet, from Chrome to this address: http://clients1.google.it/complete/search. Such requests were sent without the user pressing Enter! For many people such an activity reminds the one which has to do with keyloggers! Keyloggers are malicious programs which record everything you type on your keyboard in order to save precious information about your privacy. Another thing I am curious about is this: is all this data sent through the Web in an encrypted mode or it is visible to everybody? Furthermore, it looks like Chrome sends infos about what you type to Yahoo. com and Ask.com which are two famous search engines…but nothing is sent to Live Search. This is very weird to say the least, since Live Search is owned by Microsoft and doesn’t have any commercial agreement with Google. Waiting for Google to clarify these points…sorry guys to spoil all the excitements about the new G software.

[Daenth]

its so google adds can be giving out to certain people instead of at random. not a bad thing.

and you can disable it all anyways if you want. grow up.

They sell you to a company, not pop different ads for the heck of it.

[Inv3rted]

They sell you to a company, not pop different ads for the heck of it.

They don't sell you, you loving idiot. They sell the information they receive.

[Riot]

Old news.

Now that's old news.

[Paw]

They wouldnt care where you go. It's just so they can sell.

[oromis]

Losing firefox was the worst thing thats happened to my computer, except my first and only virus.

[n0cturni]

Firefox pissed me off, Opera pissed me off, and Chrome irritated me.

So now I use Seamonkey.

[SuperToxic]

Firefox pissed me off, Opera pissed me off, and Chrome irritated me.

So now I use Seamonkey.

How so?

[Bisjac]

your all going nuts over some big brother crap here, i dont see what the big deal is.

like 90% of the places you put your email on the net, they sell them to others. even if you select no, its legal.
google knowing your ip and when and what you search helps them alter your searches in future and also forwards certain google adds (that are loving everywhere anyways) to the ones your more likely to see.

you guys think its a coincidence that you see blockland and roblox adds everywhere?
only every loving week we get a new thread about it from you guys.

and if it really bothers you, then dont allow chrome to do it. chrome is only doing what google search itself has been doing to you for years already.

[Sarge]

One time, my computer(RIP) was in sleep mode. I looked at it and imagined me turning on my computer. The next thing I know, my computer wakes up from sleep mode. :o

[Cheemo]

Now if someone else uses your computer, they'll know you've been looking at research.