Submission + - Google tracking tentacles are to be found in many places (chromium.org)
MidGe writes: Due to my strong position against the new Google privacy policies I made the switch from chrome to chromium. To my surprise I observed that with everything that could even be remotely related to Google turned off and cleared in chromium, the browser connects to Google Plus of its own volition, opening a port in the ephemeral group of ports and keeping the connection alive! It is doing this with no activity whatsoever following invocation of the program with a blank home page. What is worse, and by all appearances could be construed as intentionally surreptitious behavior and perhaps malevolent, it does this only after a certain amount of time has elapsed following the start of the program, and again, with no further activity on my part, simply having the browser opened on the page that says "For quick access, place your bookmarks here...", with hands off the computer and nothing else running on the workstation.
I cannot understand why that would be the case, if chromium is upstream of chrome. Of course Chromium is open-sourced and there is nothing that oblige the developers to not to include such facility or to document the fact that it exists. It simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me wonder where else are Google tracking tentacles to be found.
I cannot understand why that would be the case, if chromium is upstream of chrome. Of course, Chromium is open-sourced and there is nothing that oblige the developers to not to include such facility or to document the fact that it exists. It simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me wonder where else are Google tracking tentacles to be found.
I cannot understand why that would be the case, if chromium is upstream of chrome. Of course Chromium is open-sourced and there is nothing that oblige the developers to not to include such facility or to document the fact that it exists. It simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me wonder where else are Google tracking tentacles to be found.
I cannot understand why that would be the case, if chromium is upstream of chrome. Of course, Chromium is open-sourced and there is nothing that oblige the developers to not to include such facility or to document the fact that it exists. It simply leaves a bad taste in my mouth and makes me wonder where else are Google tracking tentacles to be found.
