content: From a helpful website:  Google Chrome...   Sends the name of the file you're downloading to Google for whitelist checking; stores your IP address associated with the file for a few weeks.[1]   Every URL you even begin to type in the address bar is sent to Google, in whole or in fragments, for auto-completion purposes.[2][3]   Connects to Google every 30 minutes to download a list of malicious URLs, so the fact that you even have Chrome open is transmitted to Google.[1]   Asks you to login to your Google account, so your browsing tabs, history, etc. is stored on Google servers.[4]   Connects to websites in the background before you are even finished typing them in, without your explicit instruction.[5]   Contains an RLZ identifier, an encoded string sent together with all queries to Google.[6]   Summary: There is nothing, nothing, you can do in Chrome that isn't transmitted to Google through some channel.  Geez, can't believe I replied to the wrong person two times in a row. That's embarrassing.