0004-disable-google-url-tracker.patch

--- a/components/google/core/browser/google_url_tracker.cc
+++ b/components/google/core/browser/google_url_tracker.cc
@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@
 
 
 const char GoogleURLTracker::kDefaultGoogleHomepage[] =
-    "https://www.google.com/";
+    "";
 const char GoogleURLTracker::kSearchDomainCheckURL[] =
-    "https://www.google.com/searchdomaincheck?format=domain&type=chrome";
+    "";
 
 GoogleURLTracker::GoogleURLTracker(
     std::unique_ptr<GoogleURLTrackerClient> client,
@@ -145,83 +145,4 @@ void GoogleURLTracker::FinishSleep() {
 }
 
 void GoogleURLTracker::StartFetchIfDesirable() {
-  // Bail if a fetch isn't appropriate right now.  This function will be called
-  // again each time one of the preconditions changes, so we'll fetch
-  // immediately once all of them are met.
-  //
-  // See comments in header on the class, on RequestServerCheck(), and on the
-  // various members here for more detail on exactly what the conditions are.
-  if (in_startup_sleep_ || already_fetched_ || !need_to_fetch_)
-    return;
-
-  // Some switches should disable the Google URL tracker entirely.  If we can't
-  // do background networking, we can't do the necessary fetch, and if the user
-  // specified a Google base URL manually, we shouldn't bother to look up any
-  // alternatives or offer to switch to them.
-  if (!client_->IsBackgroundNetworkingEnabled() ||
-      base::CommandLine::ForCurrentProcess()->HasSwitch(
-          switches::kGoogleBaseURL))
-    return;
-
-  already_fetched_ = true;
-  net::NetworkTrafficAnnotationTag traffic_annotation =
-      net::DefineNetworkTrafficAnnotation("google_url_tracker", R"(
-        semantics {
-          sender: "Google URL Tracker"
-          description:
-            "When the user's default search engine is Google, or Google "
-            "services are used to resolve navigation errors, the browser needs "
-            "to know the ideal origin for requests to Google services. In "
-            "these cases the browser makes a request to a global Google "
-            "service that returns this origin, potentially taking into account "
-            "the user's cookies or IP address."
-          trigger: "Browser startup or network change."
-          data: "None."
-          destination: GOOGLE_OWNED_SERVICE
-        }
-        policy {
-          cookies_allowed: YES
-          cookies_store: "user"
-          setting:
-            "To disable this check, users can change the default search engine "
-            "to something other than Google, and disable 'Use a web service to "
-            "help resolve navigation errors' in Chromium's settings under "
-            "Privacy.\nAlternately, running Chromium with "
-            "--google-base-url=\"https://www.google.com/\" will disable this, "
-            "and force Chromium to use the specified URL for Google service "
-            "requests.\nFinally, running Chromium with "
-            "--disable-background-networking will disable this, as well as "
-            "various other features that make network requests automatically."
-           policy_exception_justification:
-            "Setting DefaultSearchProviderEnabled Chrome settings policy to "
-            "false suffices as a way of setting the default search engine to "
-            "not be Google. But there is no policy that controls navigation "
-            "error resolution."
-        })");
-  fetcher_ =
-      net::URLFetcher::Create(fetcher_id_, GURL(kSearchDomainCheckURL),
-                              net::URLFetcher::GET, this, traffic_annotation);
-  data_use_measurement::DataUseUserData::AttachToFetcher(
-      fetcher_.get(),
-      data_use_measurement::DataUseUserData::GOOGLE_URL_TRACKER);
-  ++fetcher_id_;
-  // We don't want this fetch to set new entries in the cache or cookies, lest
-  // we alarm the user.
-  fetcher_->SetLoadFlags(net::LOAD_DISABLE_CACHE |
-                         net::LOAD_DO_NOT_SAVE_COOKIES);
-  fetcher_->SetRequestContext(client_->GetRequestContext());
-
-  // Configure to retry at most kMaxRetries times for 5xx errors.
-  static const int kMaxRetries = 5;
-  fetcher_->SetMaxRetriesOn5xx(kMaxRetries);
-
-  // Also retry kMaxRetries times on network change errors. A network change can
-  // propagate through Chrome in various stages, so it's possible for this code
-  // to be reached via OnNetworkChanged(), and then have the fetch we kick off
-  // be canceled due to e.g. the DNS server changing at a later time. In general
-  // it's not possible to ensure that by the time we reach here any requests we
-  // start won't be canceled in this fashion, so retrying is the best we can do.
-  fetcher_->SetAutomaticallyRetryOnNetworkChanges(kMaxRetries);
-
-  fetcher_->Start();
 }