Mee and Richard W. Woodley, one thing you may not be taking into account is your Firewall. If you use Chrome, or any other Google product, or Google itself, you've already created the hole that Google uses to spy on you. Wherein, if a software like this attempt to phone home, you can block it. That might create problems with updating itself and any databases you have, but at least you can limit it, for example, setting the firewall to only allow it on a manual basis. In other words, you have to approve each attempt to connect, and, if your convinced that the connection serves no useful purpose, you can block it. Meanwhile, Google follows you all over like a robot puppy spy, in other words, something that looks nice but has evil intent. Don't believe me? Just look at how many times they've been sued, cited, regulatorily limited, and hauled on the carpet, and if you think that's caused them to stop, I have some ocean front property in the south central Sahara I want to sell you. I don't use Chrome, I don't use any Google software that I know of, I don't use "Spygle" search, as I call it, and any software that guards against this evil empire has potential. You always have to be careful no matter what software you use. Other entities may be bad, also, or worse, think Facebook, but few supposedly legitimate services even come close to the abysmal standards that G & F have lowered themselves to.