The one provided by VikingVPN is recent, decent - and rudimentary. I'm not aware of anything quite that comprehensive, but there's certainly plenty of FF hardening guides online.
I don't know what happens if the test is positive - could be that Chrome switches to using a 'known good' DNS server, if the one specified by the user fails to deliver trustworthy results. Looks like they might be checking whether any DNS redirection is taking place. I guess these are the tests /u/chromeusr mentioned. The random sequence varies in length, but is always composed of lower-case characters.
CHROMIUM VS CHROME TRACKING UPDATE
It's reasonable to assume that this is - at least in part - some sort of update check, but I obviously cannot guarantee that all it is without looking at the code.Ī number of apparently random-generated subdomains of my ISP-provided domain are (attempted) resolved. If multiple DNS servers are available, it redundantly uses all of them by querying each (three, in my case).Ī TLS connection is established to the resolved IP and unknown data is transmitted. I presume they have a number of those subdomains, but I see no evidence of server-side load balancing, so maybe they're just picked at random by the client. I trust people here will have no problem understanding my reluctance to post any actual data, but here's some rudimentary observations about the initial traffic: Since I happen to have both W/S and Chromium (v41) installed, I did a quick capture. These are the observations I made so far, and I want someone to correct me if I am wrong. The only thing that other browsers help is that Google doesn't automatically know your IP when you open other browsers. But it the same whether you use any other browser. And any queries made on Google search, or visiting to sites that have Google Analytics installed can be easily tied up to the user. However, Google will know your IP everytime you open the browser.
CHROMIUM VS CHROME TRACKING CODE
Since Chromium is open source, and since the code is being viewed by hundreds of thousands of developers on the Internet, I think its safe to assume that no browsing data is being sent to Google. I read on the web that the queries are being made to check if the ISP is doing any funky business while responding to URLs requested. It regularly checks up if the extensions are up to date and if not, it will update them.Īlso, there will be some DNS queries being made when you open Chromium. Most often, when you open Chromium browser, it connects to Google to update the extensions installed. With my limited knowledge, I recently used Fiddler to do some traffic analysis. Whenever you're browsing with Chromium, you ought to assume that whatever data you entered, whatever website you attempted to visit or visited, it can be directly linked to you. In the great scheme of things, prediction, pre-fetching, etc. The data being sent is encrypted, we do not fully know what it is. Analyses of network traffic clearly show that they all contact Google. Even Chromium phones home with Google and there is no way to completely prevent Google from identifying you as long as you're using a Chromium-based browser (doesn't matter if it's Chrome, Chromium or off-shoots like Iron). Chromium is obviously safe as it has a huge developer team behind it and vulnerabilities are solved rather quickly.Īs for privacy. Orgīuilding the global movement for the protection of privacy.įirst of all, you said "safe" and "privacy". Related Subreddits:Ĭonsider donating to one of the organizations that fight for your rights.
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