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No. But I use Chromium so the source code is open.

I mean if we're going to go to this level of paranoid; then we might as well look at attacks on Firefox (which have been suspected to be used by the NSA against Tor Browser).

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I'm curious as to why you think checking network connections is paranoia. As a sysadmin, I routinely log and check many of my network connections, though I have not done that for my browser.

No, I meant that suspecting Chrome of covertly sending data to Google (without telling us) is paranoia. Especially since the source code is open.

I would disagree. I'd genuinely be surprised if google made it that easy to not send anything back to them. Additionally, I'd be genuinely surprised if FF made it that simple to avoid sending things back to Mozilla.

It's less about being covert, and more about having multiple settings to send different types of data back.

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