Miscellaneous

Uhm, fuck you Google

Ok, so if you haven't heard, Google has unleashed its own browser, Chrome, onto the world, in an effort to battle Internet Explorer and Firefox and move one step closer to world domination and entirely ubiquitous advertising. But the terms of service for this browser? Yikes. Mostly standard stuff. But then there's the bit where Google tells you that it may automatically download and install updates. Now many programs give you this as an option, but you also have the fallback option to manually do updates. A computer nerd like me doesn't like my programs automatically doing shit like this. No sir.

But here's the big one: by "submitting, posting or displaying" any content with Chrome, you are automatically giving Google the right to use that content to promote its own services. So if I had posted this blog entry in Chrome, they could turn around and do whatever they'd like with the words I'm currently typing "to display, distribute and promote the[ir] services." Of course, with a post title telling Google to fuck off, one doubts that they would be keen on using my words. But I can't get behind the fact that they even have that option. So I'll be sticking with Firefox, thank you kindly.

Full post as published by Quiz Law on September 03, 2008 (boomark / email).