search

ungoogled-software / ungoogled-chromium

Google Chromium, sans integration with Google
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
20.7k stars 834 forks source link

[windows] Chromium Saves browser + setup metrics #886

Open Ph0rkoz opened 4 years ago

Ph0rkoz commented 4 years ago

I have been peering through my user folder and see crashpad and browsermetrics.pma The files keep getting re-created.

Is this a concern? I know they shouldn't be able to upload because all google servers have been text replaced; why do we still have these files?

Eloston commented 4 years ago

I think these are for metrics collection: https://superuser.com/questions/1425077/what-are-crashpadmetrics-pmaxxx-tmp-in-appdata-local-google-chrome-user-data. Apparently the services still collect metrics regardless of whether they can send automatically or not.

I don't know what these metrics or chrome://histograms can or have been used for. I remember we tried to add a flag to toggle metrics collection a long time ago, but I don't know what has happened to it. If it's not useful, I suppose we could try to disable it.

Ph0rkoz commented 4 years ago

I definitely looked for a flag and didn't see one.

Antiever commented 2 years ago

These services should definitely be disabled. They continuously write to the disk and the files take up a lot of space.

chrome