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This is a repost from the same topic as this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=293947

Perhaps the dumbest thing of all is bloggers don't actually read up before posting blogs like this particular one. One of the developers debunked the idea, he listed when the browser communicates with Google ( here: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/ ), and he insisted that they hold no rights in a public blog post that can be cited by any two-bit lawyer from the way-back-machine. Scandalous of them, huh?

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This isn't a repost of the EULA article and has nothing to do with who holds the rights to content. It only has a little in common with Matt's post. Matt mentions that Chrome will communicate with the search engine when typing in the location bar, but he does not discuss any of the implications of that.

Perhaps the dumbest thing of all is commenters who don't actually read up before posting comments like this particular one.

My mistake - but I think I have less responsibility as a commenter than a blogger should have as reporting a supposed truth and then circulating that. I saw the topic looked similar, read the first two paragraphs and thought it was going to be another dialog about how 'bad' the policies are. I wasn't too far off after re-reading it: There is a freaking setting to turn this off. It might be the default setting, but there are a lot of bad default things: Internet Explorer, for example.

So is your argument that bad default things are ok if there is a setting to turn them off? or: That since there are a lot of bad default things already we shouldn't write/care about any new ones?

My argument is neither. I am saying that people shouldn't be complaining about a feature that is common sense: You can't get search results without searching. Plus, it's not by design that you're forced. It's on to benefit the end-user not damper their experience and steal their information (even if that is in fact part of their overall agenda). One might find more to complain about stores and shopping malls that sell your information and purchase history: the only solution to those is to not shop there.

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