I wanted to start using Chrome for quite some time now, but I really don\'t want

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I wanted to start using Chrome for quite some time now, but I really don't want to tell Google about whatever sites I visit. So I was wondering if Chrome sends any data to Google telling them what I'm doing etc.
I'm specifically wondering if the latest versions of Chrome are using Google's DNS servers to resolve any domain I'm visiting because then they would know about every single site that I'm visiting on the Internet, even if I blocked Google Analytics etc.

I'm also thinking about the navigation bar which might send every character I type in real time to Google to give me search suggestions before even knowing that I was just going to enter a URL instead of a search.

In case you confirm my suspicion, could I do something about all this?

Explanation / Answer

Yes, it is sending the information to Google but It uses your computer's dns server.

In Google you even have an ad ID correlated with you. This way they get to know your interests and give you according advertisements. However, I think that with incognito mode it doesn't send anything, because that's the point of it.

EDIT: [This part is about incognito] So, basicly, I'm not sure what exactly it is sending, but it is sending loads of packets to google each time you open a web site. So it is propably sending information about where you go. But it doesn't affect your ad ID, so it's propably not stored in correlation with you.

To the dns part, it uses your computers standard dns server.

Everything based on wireshark digging.

Answer to your question: yes it might be logging it. If you want sure privacy, don't use Google.

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