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Apparently Google Chrome includes software_reporter_tool.exe, which scans your entire hard disk for executables to analyze and it reports the results to Google

reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/

ghacks.net/2018/01/20/how-to-b

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:ggc: Niklas  

@Wetrix Why am I totally not shocked?Oh well,because it's fucking Google and that's exactly what you'd expect from a spyware company like that 🤢 #FuckOffGoogle

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j.r  

@nipos @Wetrix isn't this old news?

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:ggc: Niklas  

@jr @Wetrix Yes,but the post just appeared here in the federated timeline.

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@nipos @jr yes it was classified as an older post but first I'd seen or heard of it and thought it wouldn't hurt to let other people know as I'm 100% sure chrome is still doing this. 🙂😛

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