Skip to main content

How to Restrict Excessive Data Transmission to Google from Google Chrome

Google Chrome is definitely a fast browser but it also rather communicative. Google records search queries, URLs and DNS requests in its browser.

However, you can decide which of these functions you actually want to activate in Google Chrome, therefore you can prevent Google from creating your exact user profile.

To do so, run Google Chrome and click the tool icon (see screenshot below).

Then choose ‘Option’ and select ‘Under the Hood’ tab from the new opened window [more details here]

The first option ‘Show suggestions navigation errors’ shows similar websites for instance if the desired site can’t be accessible. The next option ‘use a suggestion service to help complete searches and URL typed in address bar’ related to the suggestion service of Google on entering the web address and search terms.

If you use the ‘DNS prefetch for the page loading performance’ the browser all the link on one website to a DNS server to began with So that the process of calling links in the future will be faster.

The next option ‘Phishing and Malware' protection is useful, but can disable if you have other good system for preventing malware and fishing sites.

The Final option ‘help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google’ is disabled by default. After choosing your options click close to activate the new settings.

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Please leave your valuable comment below

Popular posts from this blog

Surf the Web Anonymously With Firefox Add-on Phproxy

There are several web based proxy servers available to surf the internet anonymously or as from another country. The Firefox add-on (Firefox 3 – 4) Phzilla helps you view a webpage or surf the internet using the PHProxy (a type of web based proxy server) proxy servers. It is very easy and convenient to use.
2 comments
Read more

Restore Lost Capacity Of Your USB Flash Drive (How to)

Some malware can hide full capacity of your USB flash drive. For example, a 4GB pen drive sometimes shows only 500kb or less. An interesting part of this situation is that, even after removing the malware or formatting the USB flash drive, you will not get back its original capacity. Therefore, the question here is how to restore a USB flash drive to its full capacity.
59 comments
Read more

Privacy Policy

We at www.jkwebtalks.com give prime importance to our users’ privacy and are committed to protecting it always. If you have any doubt concerned with our website privacy policy or software, please feel free to contact us. Please read our Privacy Policy below to learn more about how we treat personally identifiable information, how it is protected and used. Log Files: www.jkwebtalks.com does NOT collect any personally-identifiable information, such as name, address, phone number or email address from users of this web site without their knowledge, and takes measures to protect their privacy. However, like other standard web site servers, we use log files to collect information purely to identify the number of visitors to this web site, what those visitors looked at and how long they spent browsing. These information will only be used to judge the popularity of this web site and to make future improvements.These includes IP address, internet service provider, type of browser, date/ti
Read more