My read of this indicates that Google is not tracking what sites you go to, only sites that don't resolve or attempt to feed you a bad version of Google's SSL certificates. And, if you believe that Google is actually tracking the Safe Browsing queries when they say they aren't, you can ask either browser to not check for malware:
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No. Google Chrome is Chromium + closed source components like the PDF reader. Wikipedia has a list of differences here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...
Both Google Chrome and Chromium let you choose a search engine other than Google when you first start it.
The privacy policy is a good read if you want to know exactly what information Google collects:
https://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/privacy.html
My read of this indicates that Google is not tracking what sites you go to, only sites that don't resolve or attempt to feed you a bad version of Google's SSL certificates. And, if you believe that Google is actually tracking the Safe Browsing queries when they say they aren't, you can ask either browser to not check for malware:
https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...