Google Chrome is a web browser which allegedly is very good at spying on what you're doing, and sending the results back to Google
Various internet tools, probably including Chrome, look at info like your location and what you visit. I gather the claimed benefit is that they can target adverts etc better. My recollection is that most of these, including Chrome, have a way to turn off this collection -- perhaps someone can enlighten us.
However, there is no need to use Chrome to get Translate. At the risk of robbing myself of some business
, Google translate is available independent of browser. Just go to a Google search page and select Translate under the more option at the top of the page -- then follow the bouncing ball...
There is one information gathering issue however. If you have something confidential to translate then many translators say it is better not to use Google translate as, in my understanding, it uses a database of stuff it has encountered before: and in goes your confidential stuff.
--Geoff