Google Chrome is now available as a developer release from Google:
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I was reading somewhere about it not being recommended for Mac users due to spyware’s and such. I’ll have to see where I read that, but something about the way it cache’s your URL’s, at least in the dev builds, and that it watches and reports where you go online.
I do love me Private Browsing to avoid all that mess.
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None of the data collected by Chrome is associated with you personally in any way. It’s all anonomyzed before it’s sent to the google, and once there is used to feed their automated browser testing program and to seed the auto-suggest system, nothing more sinister than that.
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I guess a little more clarity on what I read. The things I thought were concerning was that Chrome is set to send URL data to compare sites you visit with a list of Google’s “dangerous” sites. The other thing was, like Firefox, it will record keypress entry data to get suggestions for search terms.
Some people might see that as an invasion of privacy.
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It might be an invasion of privacy if it connected that data with you
personally. But Chrome is stitching what you type together with the
data that is collected from Google within your browser on your
computer. It’s not being done in the cloud somewhere or being marked
down on your ‘permanent record’. All browsers (just to be fair) send
URL data to servers over the public internet. That’s how you get to
those dangerous pages in the first place! And as far as that type-
ahead business being sent to Google to form the drop down list of
suggestions – it’s not going anywhere except to Google, and when you
finish typing and press return, guess what? The entire string you
typed gets sent to the very same place! Using that type-ahead is
precisely the same as opening a Google search and typing very slowly
and pressing return after each letter.
Walter
On Jun 9, 2009, at 3:42 AM, Dan J wrote:
I guess a little more clarity on what I read. The things I thought
were concerning was that Chrome is set to send URL data to compare
sites you visit with a list of Google’s “dangerous” sites. The
other thing was, like Firefox, it will record keypress entry data to
get suggestions for search terms.
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