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Only through sync, which you can encrypt with a separate password to your Google account.

My sync is encrypted so I can't test this for you but I believe if it's not, you can check (and clear) your history here: https://myactivity.google.com/myactivity

Google's privacy policy seems to make it clear that this happens unless encryption is turned on: https://www.google.com/chrome/privacy/index.html#signed-in




you missed the obvious one (that is actually related to the linked edge issue): SafeBrowse. SafeBrowse gets ALL your traffic from most browsers.


Ah I was wrong about this!!! SafeBrowse uses hashes.

Edit: never be afraid to admit your were wrong folks :) So it only gets a “potential list” of sites you visited. Wonder if the operators could aggregate the data enough to deanonymize things


The hash isn't even necessarily transmitted, and it's often partial hashes at that.




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