Chromium 155.0.8059.79 — the first minute without a single click
How we tested: a clean Debian 13 in a disposable container; source — package chromium 155.0.8059.79-1~deb13u1 from the Debian repository. Run as a regular user on a virtual screen, 60 seconds, nothing clicked. 16.10.2026. Every network request and every file written was recorded; the code was not decompiled. The container was deleted afterwards.
Package SHA-256: f52c20eb7eec8f52e421f2384c0ef1920aacea92967e289ba1838570fa6bbcac
Summary
| What we checked | Result |
|---|---|
| Built-in telemetry, crash reporting, analytics, ad SDKs | Crashpad / Breakpad (crash reports) |
| Network requests in the first minute | 8 server names, plus 2 unnamed |
| Known trackers among the servers | Google (сеть доставки), Google APIs (сеть доставки) |
| Files written in the first minute | 300+ |
| The program ran the whole time | yes — process alive at the end |
What is built in
49 files (380 MB) were checked.
| SDK | Purpose | Found in |
|---|---|---|
| Crashpad / Breakpad | crash reports | usr/lib/chromium/chromium |
Addresses of known trackers in the program’s files — addresses in code, not requests:
| Tracker | Addresses | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
gemini.google.com, www.google.com, c.play.google.com, clients2.google.com | 395 | |
| Google APIs | c.bigcache.googleapis.com, confection.pa.googleapis.com, www.googleapis.com, chromereporting-pa.googleapis.com | 193 |
| Yahoo | it.search.yahoo.com, at.search.yahoo.com, es.search.yahoo.com, fr.search.yahoo.com | 94 |
| Google Static | ssl.gstatic.com, www.gstatic.com, fonts.gstatic.com, t1.gstatic.com | 38 |
| YouTube | c.youtube.com, youtube.com, www.youtube.com, tv.youtube.com | 17 |
| Microsoft Bing Ads | www.bing.com | 5 |
| Mail.ru | suggests.go.mail.ru, go.mail.ru | 4 |
| Яндекс.Метрика | suggest.yandex.ru, yandex.ru | 4 |
| Яндекс | storage.ape.yandex.net | 4 |
| Google Fonts | fonts.googleapis.com | 3 |
| YouTube (видео) | googlevideo.com | 1 |
| Google AdSense | c.googlesyndication.com | 1 |
Where it connected
| Server | How | From second | Times | Known tracker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
accounts.google.com | connection | 0.9 | 1 | Google (сеть доставки) |
android.clients.google.com | connection | 4.2 | 1 | Google (сеть доставки) |
mtalk.google.com | connection | 4.6 | 1 | Google (сеть доставки) |
optimizationguide-pa.googleapis.com | connection | 10.6 | 1 | Google APIs (сеть доставки) |
redirector.gvt1.com | connection | 0.6 | 2 | — |
rr3---sn-oj1gi5-54.gvt1.com | connection | 1.5 | 1 | — |
start.duckduckgo.com | connection | 1.1 | 1 | — |
update.googleapis.com | connection | 0.7 | 2 | Google APIs (сеть доставки) |
142.251.20.138:80 | connection without a name (TCP) | 0.6 | 1 | — |
34.104.35.123:80 | connection without a name (TCP) | 1.7 | 1 | — |
A DNS lookup is not yet a connection: the program looked up the server’s address. But the lookup itself is visible to the ISP and the DNS server.
What it wrote to disk
Folders the program wrote files to during the minute:
| Folder | Files |
|---|---|
~/.config/chromium | 138 |
~/.cache/mesa_shader_cache_db | 102 |
~/.cache/chromium | 59 |
~/.cache/dconf | 1 |
How to read this card
- This is the first minute after launch with no action at all: what the program does on its own. Normal use may involve more requests.
- A “built-in SDK” means the library’s code was found. It does not prove data transfer, and an address in the code is not a request.
- The review was made automatically using a single method. You can check any program yourself here.