what is the meaning of google_experiment_mod in chrome localstorage

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I am storing some items in chrome local storage. Along with my variables I can see

google_experiment_mod: "335"

I am wondering what it means.

Below is the code to to store the items and I use chrome developer tool to see the content.

localStorage.setItem("freqInMins", response.freqInMins);

Thanks

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javascriptgoogle-chromelocal-storage
probably you are using a nightly build of Chrome, and may be they are using this google_experiment_mod: "335" – Murtaza Khursheed Hussain

2 Answers

4
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google_experiment_mod is used by Google AdSense for experimenting with which advertisement perform best on a website. Please refer to “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites”.

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I have that too under the web inspector, but only on certain sites. I use mac and I am using Safari. I also found while searching "experiments" in the resource content on the google homepage something that says "dnssec-nd.gexperiments1.com", so I'm guessing that "gexperiments" means "googleexperiments" , and its probably something google uses to track everyone's time or something like that. so its probably nothing.