Yes, I've seen this.Originally Posted by ryboto
Please excuse me repeating my words from another forum:
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1. The source of information is google itself.
2. It's not detailed enough. i.e.
doesn't tell what information is being sent to google. I think that the minimum is "IP xxx has Chrome installed and is running now". I would except that they abuse it a little and send current Chrome version + OS version too. Do they? Or maybe they send something else too?- Google Chrome checks for automatic updates every 25 hours. Other modern browsers check for updates as well, e.g. to plug security holes. Given today’s sometimes-hostile web, I think checking for updates like this is a very smart choice.
Yes, I'm paranoid.
And I remember how they changed desktop search tool's license to let it send information to google few months after it's release...so it's not THAT important what it does now, but rather - what will it be doing later.
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Well, now we can be pretty sure that updater sends something more - personal number, so even people with variable IP are being tracked correctly.
Also..what are the "Usage statistics" entries in the registry?
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