Chronium-based browsers send an enormous amount of data to Google

[Pragmatic]

According to one researcher, Chronium-based browsers are sending out a huge amount of data unknowingly because of an extension hidden at the heart of Chronium, with only Brave recently deactivated.

Oui, les navigateurs fondés sur Chromium envoient vos données à Google

[redoomed1]

Duplicate of

All Chromium browsers including Brave give special access to system/tab CPU/GPU only for Google domains

I have not seen that this was discussed before. For those who don’t wanna go through X, “Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel. This API is not exposed to other sites - only to *.google.com. Brave also has the same behaviour as Chrome and Edge here. The extension that allows Google to retrieve this information exclusively from *.g…

[Pragmatic]

Oh, sorry, I hadn’t seen that, but it’s a long time ago and now the French tech sites are talking about it.