Comments on: Google Chrome Anonymizer

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:50:40 +0000

After I ran Chrome Anonymizer I was not able to log into my gmail account. Now how do I undo Anonymizer?

By: flink

flink — Thu, 28 May 2009 09:41:26 +0000

Would it not be better if everyone used the same Client ID?

By: Jetson

Jetson — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 11:40:16 +0000

Although Google Chrome is very basic & simple, but that’s I want. I am finding Firefox & IE to be slower than before. It’s a great alternative.

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By: katy

katy — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 16:44:08 +0000

We tested Chrome’s quality of speed on our aplication (http://www.taskwriter.com) and it is faster than IE and a little bit faster than Firefox 3.0. See the graphics: http://www.taskwriter.com/blog/how-good-chrome-really-is

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:35:44 +0000

@Bill, OK and thanks for confirming. Then it will work on a French system as well. I’ll pass the good news.

I think Google is going to have quite a lot of “client_id”: “0″. But I’ve read that this infamous ClientID was more a second-level reference, level 1 being IP. ClientID would be there only to distinguish users of a same computer …

I’m not really concerned myself since I haven’t installed Chrome, but I know several relatives who have, so I try to understand to help them if I can.

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:16:12 +0000

Transcontinental,
UnChrome worked on my xppro system. After using it, my Local State file reads,

“user_experience_metrics”: {
“client_id”: “0″,
“client_id_timestamp”: “0″

I dl’ed UnChrome from the English language page, and the GUI is written in English.

Hope this helps.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:32:28 +0000

@Bill, I’ve read that on a french forum, but it was mentioned that this program written in German considered system paths in German, making the program maybe unsuccessful in other languages. Can you confirm this? Thanks

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:25:59 +0000

Update: Sept 12, 08

Recently released UNCHROME also removes the client id.

http://www.abelssoft.de/
http://www.abelssoft.net/unchrome.php (English)

From the website:
“Unfortunately, each Google Chrome installation contains a unique ID that allowing identifying its user. Google doesn’t make it an easy job to remove this ID.

UnChrome helps you with this task. It replaces your unique ID with Null values so that your browser cannot be identified any longer. The functionality of Google Chrome is not influenced by this. You only need to apply UnChrome once.”

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By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:45:01 +0000

I used the same approach as Ash to remove the client id (manually edit, change Local State to read only, and do the same with the subsequent Local State.tmp file Google Chrome creates). My findings are consistent in that Google Chrome does not seem to be creating any further Local State files and is unable to edit the current two.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:31:00 +0000

Thank you Martin. Your article was an eye opener to me and I’ve since downloaded and installed the anonymiser. Security adn protection is one thing but being snooped on doesn’t feel right.

Best wishes,

Richard

By: Martin

Martin — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:03:22 +0000

Richard it depends. Even if you log into other Google services and use Google Search they still cannot protocol your behavior on non-Google sites over sessions.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:39:24 +0000

Does logging into other Google services, such as Google Reader, then render the anonymisr pointless?

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By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:03:14 +0000

Thanks – “Google Chrome Anonymizer” works as described!

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By: Ash

Ash — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:51:52 +0000

On the 3rd method.
You can edit the file, then make it read only.
Run and close chrome again.
Chrome will create a “Local State.tmp” file.
Edit that file also, and make it read only.

Chrome shouldn’t make any more back ups… I think.

By: Transcontinental

Transcontinental — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:41:00 +0000

I’d rather say Big Uncle than Big Brother, Google is not NSA, it’s only business, smart business. Everyone knows what Google is up to, but the company communicates so well and its products are so fine that either some will disclose their privacy or others try to beat the company on its ground.

Nice summary, Martin, thanks.