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Make DuckDuckGo your Chrome default search engine

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humanspecies ◴[14 Jun 13 03:00 UTC] No.5878039[source]▶
Using DuckDuckGo in Chrome is like asking for privacy while walking around naked in Times Square. Chrome has 100% unrestricted access to anything your user can access on your PC, no matter what search engine you choose.
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m0th87 ◴[14 Jun 13 03:10 UTC] No.5878065[source]▶
Here's a full list of what data is sent back to google: http://lifehacker.com/5763452/what-data-does-chrome-send-to-...

Do the autocomplete results still go to google? If so, then enabling DDG on chrome is indeed fruitless.

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nivla ◴[14 Jun 13 03:45 UTC] No.5878150[source]▶
Just as an FYI, new versions of chrome also sends back the full URL and the hash of any file you download or save. I bumped across this when I was trying to download light table and it din't let me open it. After a bit of research I found file scanning to be the new addition to chrome's malware checks. With all the NSA debacle going on now, I am feeling even more paranoid. I love chrome but I will be switching to Firefox or IE10 soon.
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1. magicalist ◴[14 Jun 13 04:14 UTC] No.5878250[source]▶
No, it doesn't. I've detailed how safe browsing works in Chrome, Firefox and Safari works before[1]. tl;dr only partial hashes are exchanged, so you can't reverse it even if you really wanted to.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5588362

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2. nivla ◴[14 Jun 13 04:24 UTC] No.5878291[source]▶
Yes it does. Check this page out [1] and this stackoverflow question.[2]

"If a file isn’t from a known source, Chrome sends the URL and IP of the host and other meta data, such as the file’s hash and binary size, to Google."

[1] http://blog.chromium.org/2012/01/all-about-safe-browsing.htm...

[2] http://superuser.com/questions/387724/how-to-disable-downloa...