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- serif69, on 09/03/2008, -13/+223Don't be evil.
After people complain. - silfiriel, on 09/03/2008, -3/+185Thank God somebody actually reads EULAs...
- Barbas06, on 09/03/2008, -13/+110It's funny how often EULAs are crazy like this "by mistake". What, are they hoping nobody will notice?
- timbro1, on 09/03/2008, -42/+126EULA's are for wimps!
...and apple sucks. - Rudegar, on 09/03/2008, -6/+88well windows safari's eula had that it was illegal to use it on a non applecomputer so
- dkapuchino, on 09/03/2008, -5/+76God's EULA is called a "bible".
- SkippyDoorknob, on 09/03/2008, -5/+64All of the http transfers from Chrome were not being routed through a Google server first. They didn't have a way to capture all that info even if they really did want to.
- Gorgonzola44, on 09/03/2008, -29/+64People don't actually read the EULA, do they?
- JDenigma, on 09/03/2008, -6/+38Uh oh, pissing off the Apple fanboys. You don't want to do that. They just might throw an ipod at you.
- kylemech, on 09/03/2008, -1/+33READ. THE. ARTICLE.
"That said, individuals have a clear way to use Chrome and avoid having this occur. Turning off the auto-suggest feature means that Google will neither get nor store this information. One can also select a search provider other than Google as their default to avoid having their search queries stored by Google. (Update 11:45 a.m. PDT: Switching to Chrome's Incognito mode also switches off the auto-suggest features, the Google representative said.)" - billbugger, on 09/03/2008, -4/+28ALT + F4 will do it as well.
- Midtowner, on 09/03/2008, -1/+23I read it... there's no way in hell any court would actually enforce something like that. EULA's are what law-folk refer to as "contracts of adhesion," in other words, you, the consumer are virtually powerless to bargain for your own benefit in the deal, and the terms are in a 'take it or leave it' format. Terms in such contracts which are fundamentally unfair and/or surprising and not something one would expect to find in a contract are rarely, if ever enforceable.
I have to wonder who wrote that EULA to begin with. - lanzemurdok, on 09/03/2008, -1/+22Google is being evil by not being evil.
that doesn't make sense. - dazparkour, on 09/03/2008, -1/+22Look at this paranoia!
It's copied from one of the other services - deal with it. They aren't keeping the info anyway.
Why are you really pissed at Chrome. It's okay from using it today. It's fast. That's what I want when I'm browsing. Quick.
No ads needs to come next.
The privacy thing was obviously a mistake, now they fixed it people are bitching it's fixed. The people crying "OH, they won't tell you next time" need to shut up - they can't legally take possession of your works without telling you. It's fixed. Deal with it.
It lasted less than a day. People complained. It was fixed.
If Microsoft conformed to the antitrust hearings in the same length of time you would all of fainted. It's free anyway. - FurtThePirate, on 09/03/2008, -0/+20Wrench -> options -> homepage: show home button on toolbar.
- tacojohn48, on 09/03/2008, -0/+18I think any company that listens to its customers and responds this fast has a little leeway on not being called evil.
- Bootes, on 09/03/2008, -1/+17They're hoping to completely cover themselves from any possibility of being sued.
- tacojohn48, on 09/03/2008, -0/+16Apparently the people that write (copy and paste) them don't even bother to read them.
- Tobey, on 09/03/2008, -3/+19You're right, they aren't created by mistake. But this EULA wasn't written for Chrome. If you had read the article, you'd see they copied it from another Google product, and forgot to take the part about them owning your soul out. ...or something like that.
- inactive, on 09/03/2008, -2/+17Seems at least 2 people (who dugg you down) do.
- dn11, on 09/03/2008, -2/+17whether you like Chrome or not - it's looking like some of it's technology will probably end up becoming the future of web browsers. the performance is in a different league than anything else out there
- gnarlee, on 09/03/2008, -1/+15a.k.a. psychology
- Macuyiko, on 09/03/2008, -0/+14Yeah, I'll just use Google.com instead, that way, they won't know my search query or my IP... oh wait...
Think, people. - savethejets, on 09/03/2008, -1/+14Strange, I didn't read it and pressed Ok with both...
- Gerbil_Juice, on 09/03/2008, -2/+15They wouldn't dare risk scratching one.
- Homerr, on 09/03/2008, -2/+14Glad they are changing it, it was DOA for me with that EULA.
- rento, on 09/03/2008, -4/+16Our bad! We wont tell you next time!
- TINZUSA, on 09/03/2008, -12/+22I'm tired of these draconian screw your rights EULAs, I'm not using Chrome. These legal agreements are not created by mistake.
- Crushkilla, on 09/03/2008, -6/+16I'm guessing this is some Easter Egg some employee planted.
- V1ncent, on 09/03/2008, -0/+10Isn't EULA that hangy thing at the back of your throat?!
- Chainheart2, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10Reverse reverse psychology
- Badandy127, on 09/03/2008, -6/+15I'm digging you up because it's obvious your intention was to be dugg down.
- craighamnett, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9This is exactly what I thought, thankfully there are others which took their tin hat off a while ago.
- salmonmoose, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9Urm - many businesses/schools/universities etc sit behind a NAT. To the outside world, every user on that appears to have the same IP address.
The whole point of IPv6 is that we can have a unique IP for every device and not have to deal with NATs etc. - Tomholius, on 09/03/2008, -0/+9I expect other people to read them so that they find the problems and complain about them. Its flawless, see worked just now.
- gluecode, on 09/03/2008, -1/+10Good that they are fixing this rather than coming up with a lame answer about why the current EULA is "good for the consumer and competition."
- int19h, on 09/03/2008, -0/+8This is how all companies should respond to issues like these.
- AndrewDB, on 09/03/2008, -2/+9It's the same thing Firefox has, where if you type in DI, it'll bring up Digg.com and you can just hit enter, and it'll bring up the site.
Paranoia sure is fun isn't it? - hardcorerikki, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6How very true.
- druakara, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6ctrl+tab
Now can someone tell me how to make my scroll wheel work correctly? When I scroll down, I want it to go down, not up. - SSUK, on 09/03/2008, -0/+6I don't think your bible's supposed to have a button on it. Make sure it isn't ticking.
- computershack, on 09/03/2008, -15/+21FTFA: "Chrome's "Omnibar" can also access all keystrokes a user types, and Google will store some of this information along with IP addresses. "
I think I'll pass on Chrome. - SkippyDoorknob, on 09/03/2008, -1/+7No, it's a total non-issue and was from the start.
- MalDON, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5I said something like this on reddit a few days ago:
That portion of the EULA was probably from some legal template their team used. AKA, they were just recycling text. - plup, on 09/04/2008, -0/+5Think about it for a second. What if they added a _feature_ like this: (automatically signed posts)
--------Chrome 0.2--------------
This comment is brought to you by Google Chrome -- http://google.com/chrome/ -- "Yes, it rhymes. For a better tomorrow!"
Recently visited 3 sites by this [#00000000007454459/~anonymous/loc:57] user:
1) http://reddit.com/
2) http://www.*****.com/
3) http://lemonparty.org/~admin/counter/ - jellygraph, on 09/03/2008, -0/+5nope... who has the time?
- Zendead, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Why not keep him even?
- FredFredrickson, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6Yes, they are hoping that.
- OhFrak, on 09/03/2008, -1/+6It was nothing but pathetic Firefox fanboys desperate to do keep people from dumping their outdated and memory hog of a browser.
- NotOptium, on 09/03/2008, -2/+7I was closing this Firefox tab as my eyes skimmed your message.
I read it as "Wrench -> options -> homepage: show some butter..."
I had to open it back up just to be sure. Now I'm kind of disappointed. -
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