Chrome sends the text, progressively, as you type it into the address/search bar, so it can auto-complete results. This is what I believe they were referring to. Even if you don’t use Google as the search engine, it still sends those characters to Google.
If you set up ZAP/ Burp/ etc you can watch the requests go out in realtime.
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Chrome sends the text, progressively, as you type it into the address/search bar, so it can auto-complete results. This is what I believe they were referring to. Even if you don’t use Google as the search engine, it still sends those characters to Google.
If you set up ZAP/ Burp/ etc you can watch the requests go out in realtime.
Oh right, I suppose they could’ve not done that that’s true