When in Incognito mode, in order to provide these suggestions, Chrome relies on an on-device model that does not communicate with your default search engine until you select a suggestion. When Chrome preconnects, it resolves the search engine’s IP address and connects it to the search engine, exposing your IP address.

Chrome will not preconnect if you have either turned off “Preload pages for faster browsing and searching” in the “Cookies” part of “Privacy and security” section or 'Autocomplete searches and URLs' in the “Sync and Google services” section of Chrome's settings. To provide suggestions and search results faster, Chrome may preconnect to your default search engine in the background. Your IP address and certain cookies are also sent to your default search engine with all requests, in order to return the results that are most relevant to you. That signal includes the URL of the currently displayed search engine results page. Chrome will also send a signal to your default search engine when you focus in the omnibox, telling it to get ready to provide suggestions. When not in Incognito mode, in order to provide these suggestions, Chrome sends the text you've typed into the omnibox, along with a general categorization (e.g., 'URL', 'search query', or 'unknown'), to your default search engine. They can be turned off by unchecking 'Autocomplete searches and URLs' in the “Sync and Google services” section of Chrome's settings. These suggestions make navigation and searching faster and easier, and are turned on by default.

Google Chrome uses a combined web address and search bar (we call it the “omnibox”) at the top of the browser window.Īs you use the omnibox, your default search engine can suggest addresses and search queries that may be of interest to you. For issues that include confidential information, please use this link. If you want to report a privacy issue, you can file it in our public bug tracker. If you have a question about Google Chrome and Privacy that this document doesn’t answer, please feel free to ask it in the Community Forum.

This document does not cover features that are still under development, such as features in the beta, dev and canary channel and active field trials, or Android apps on Chrome OS if Play Apps are enabled. Here we’re focusing on the desktop version of Chrome we touch only tangentially on Chrome OS and Chrome for Mobile.

This document also describes the controls available to you regarding how your data is used by Chrome. This document describes the features in Chrome that communicate with Google, as well as with third-party services (for example, if you've changed your default search engine). Last modified: Febru(Current as of Chrome.

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