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From: ng0 <ng0 <at> n0.is>
To: Mike Gerwitz <mtg <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 28004 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
Subject: [bug#28004] Chromium
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 08:17:07 +0000

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Mike Gerwitz transcribed 1.6K bytes:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 19:18:39 +0100, Marius Bakke wrote:
> > Now, when launching the browser for the first time, it *still* connects
> > to Google services.  After a while it also does a lookup for AdWords...
> 
> Do you know what code initiates this?  Would it be easy to remove, and
> would that harm other functionality?
> 
> Saying that it only runs the first time implies to me that there's a
> flag, and that perhaps the flag can either be permanently set or the
> conditional triggering this behavior removed.
> 
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Could this be a connectivity check?

switch "--connectivity-check-url" exists:
https://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
and there might be a flag here: chrome://flags/

We can also creatre our own settings file as suggested in
this thread:
https://www.jamf.com/jamf-nation/discussions/10331/chrome-master-preferences-file-and-suppressing-first-run-browser

Someone else suggested this file:
http://www.google.com/codesearch/p?hl=ru#HLxzG3ShG8A/trunk/win/lib/lib_values.cc&q=/tools/pso&sa=N&cd=1&ct=rc
404 now.

Adwords query might really be rlz, but I'm just guessing for now. Post from 2010:
https://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

> When we released a new stable version of Google Chrome last March, we tried to improve the transparency and privacy options of Google Chrome. One area where ve seen a lot of interest and questions is the RLZ library that is built into Google Chrome. RLZ gives us the ability to accurately measure the success of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships in order to meet our contractual and financial obligations. It assigns non-unique, non-personally identifiable promotion tracking labels to client products; these labels sometimes appear in Google search queries in Google Chrome.we

This is the source code view:
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/rlz/rlz.cc?view=markup
https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/browser/rlz/rlz.h?view=markup


Different topic. This will help us to integrate packaged extensions once we get there:
https://data.gpo.zugaina.org/gentoo/www-client/chromium/files/chromium-launcher-r3.sh
and probably some more files.
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