I think you have only found the tip of the iceberg of things that Chrome and Google does without your express consent.
On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:48 AM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 9:38 AM Jan Schaumann via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > wrote: > > William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > > It turns out that every password I allowed Chrome on Android to > > > remember, it uploaded to Google. In plain text!! > > > > Chrome does not store your passwords in plain text. > > It encrypts them locally, on e.g. macOS using, I > > think, a secret stored in the keychain under "Chrome > > Safe Storage", on Windows using a similar API and > > secret probably unlocked via your login credentials. > > Hi Jan, > > I'm fine with Chrome encrypting them locally. That's what I want it to > do. I'm not at all fine with it uploading them to my Google account. I > don't want any trace of my non-google passwords present in my google > account. I'm very very not fine that it happened behind my back > without my express consent. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ >