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

**URL:** https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/chronium-based-browsers-send-an-enormous-amount-of-data-to-google/19617
**Category:** General
**Created:** 2024-07-22T16:48:43Z
**Posts:** 3

## Post 1 by @Pragmatic — 2024-07-22T16:48:43Z

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](https://www.clubic.com/actualite-533292-oui-les-navigateurs-fondes-sur-chromium-envoient-vos-donnees-a-google.html)**
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> Ou quand l'argument du « Google débarrassé de Google » tombe à l'eau.

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## Post 2 by @redoomed1 — 2024-07-22T16:51:06Z

Duplicate of

> [@All Chromium browsers including Brave give special access to system/tab CPU/GPU only for Google domains](https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/all-chromium-browsers-including-brave-give-special-access-to-system-tab-cpu-gpu-only-for-google-domains/19380):
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> 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…

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## Post 3 by @Pragmatic — 2024-07-22T16:58:03Z

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

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## Post 4 by @Valynor — 2024-07-22T17:05:00Z