Originally Posted By: martinfocazio
One more thing...

Google Chrome. A good browser for today and a better browser for tomorrow.

Get it. Live it. Love it.

It's CRISP and SIMPLE.


I donīt attach much importance to simple tools like browsers and donīt care what people use but I am quite surprised how many people glorify the Chrome browser. This thing is basically created for one reason - to spy on you in order to target advertisements to you. Or who knows what they are doing with all this data or what they will do in the future.

Maybe something has been already "fixed" now but here are some examples what Chrome was like when it came out (maybe something is still included today):

- If I remember correctly the EULA of the software stated something like this: whatever you upload via Chrome browser belongs to the Google. Basically "All your base are belong to us" attitude. I believe the EULA was changed with later versions. But the first EULA says something about Googleīs intention.

- Your Chrome installation is associated with unique ID. In order to anonymize your installation you have to use third party application UnChrome. (This behavior is present in Chrome today.)

- Google update service which installs along with Chrome is always running on your computer even if Chrome is not running and cannot be terminated or uninstalled the normal way. (This was somebodyīs complaint - I donīt know if itīs 100% true.)

- This is from this thread - http://forum.securitycadets.com/index.php?showtopic=8161&hl

Quote:
Google's Omnibox could be Pandora's box
Posted by Ina Fried http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10031661...tml?tag=nl.e433
QUOTE
The auto-suggest feature of Google's new Chrome browser does more than just help users get where they are going. It will also give Google a wealth of information on what people are doing on the Internet besides searching.

Provided that users leave Chrome's auto-suggest feature on and have Google as their default search provider, Google will have access to any keystrokes that are typed into the browser's Omnibox, even before a user hits enter.


There were also some serious security bugs in Chrome ( http://forum.securitycadets.com/index.php?showtopic=8161&hl ). I donīt know if everything has been fixed now or not.

There are more issues than these, just search "Google Chrome Privacy".

... No, thanks, I will stick with Opera.

P.S.: There is "Iron" browser that is created from open source code of Chromium. It should be almost identiccal to Chrome but with better privacy and maybe other advancements.