Privacy Concerns with Disconnect

[ben]

When I click on the "Install" button a window pops up that says:

Install Disconnect? 

It can access: 

• Your data on all websites.  
• Your browsing history.
  

So instead of "unintentionally sending your browsing and search history with your name and other personal information to third parties and search engines", are we now sending it to Disconnect?  What is being done with our info if anything?

Can you please explain?

Thank you,

Ben

[Leonardo]

I believe this is relevant (it applies to Facebook Disconnect, but is still relevant towards Disconnect).

[Brian Kennish]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:50 PM, ben <benod...@gmail.com> wrote:
> When I click on the "Install" button a window pops up that says:
>
> Install Disconnect?
> It can access:
>
> Your data on all websites.
> Your browsing history.
>
> So instead of "unintentionally sending your browsing and search history with
> your name and other personal information to third parties and search
> engines", are we now sending it to Disconnect?

On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Leonardo <mast...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I believe this is relevant (it applies to Facebook Disconnect, but is still
> relevant towards Disconnect).

Right, what Leonardo said.

I guess Chrome takes a pessimistic view of extensions. But to
paraphrase myself, "Disconnect doesn't store your personal data and
never will, unless you opt in to anonymously provide data for
diagnostic purposes in the future."

And better still, you don't have to believe me. If you're a
programmer, you can examine Disconnect's code:
http://code.google.com/p/byoogle/source/browse/trunk/google/chrome/disconnect/.

[ben]

Great!  Thank you for the information.