Google will own your future...

Read their new "privacy" policies.

They are making money every time you go on the Internet, selling your searches, the time you spend on any individual page, how many pages you view, how long a session you have...

there is no escape, human.

 

Dont use chrome, limit your accounts with them, turn off privacy settings, and most of all proxy your google searches so them bastards cant get rich off of you

 

Or you could just not log into your Google account.

 

Or simply not have a google account

 

I do some web site design and computer repairs and GC is nothing but bad news for me on both accounts. I have as little to do with Google as I can period.

 

Well I use Google chrome because its the best browser out there. IE is a horrible browser and Mozilla just isn't as fast. I think people need to relax about the privacy issue. Facebook already knows way more about you then Google does.

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Facebook already knows way more about you then Google does.

Very true. I am too weak to go without Facebook, but I have a limited amount of information on there. I also don't use their chat, e-mail or messaging services. All it's good for (to me) is status updates and to lurk in photo galleries.

Likewise with Google. I don't use Google Docs, Gmail or Google Talk. Far too creepy for me. I still use both services, but use them with a limited amount of information.

 

Do not install GOOGLE EARTH ever on a PC!!! WARNING!

I installed it a while back and noticed odd network traffic. So I fired up a packet sniffer and watched my PC as I used it.
Even with Google Earth OFF, I was seeing traffic outbound to a odd address, so I traced where and what it was.

Turns out when you intall Google Earth, it sends everything about your PC and what your doing to GOOGLE! This includes anything you type, sites you visit, ID you type in (like bank accounts)

IF you open excel, it sends that to them, including the name of the file. Thats way to invasive.

I suspect Google Chrome is just as bad!

I uninstalled Google Earth and the traffic stopped.

 

I call BS.

Where was the traffic being directed to, which port was it going through, protocol used, etc? How did you "turn it off" in order to get it stop even though you said it was still working? How did you determine they were keylogging or even worse sending all of your documents to their central servers? What sniffing program did you use?

Please elaborate because if this is true and you can prove it, you will be on the front cover of every news outlet in the modern western world.

 

I'm happy with Chrome. I see IE doing the same thing with advertising related to my cookies. I see Patriot ads all the time with both browsers. After I go to Hondas web site, I see Honda related ads, etc. If they both are going to do it, I'm happy with chrome

 

I've been using Chrome since it was still called Chromium and it was on my (at the time) debian box. I'm sure, that just like any other browser does, it reports back to the mother-ship with information that I normally wouldn't hand out on my own. I notice far fewer issues with spyware and the like on my Windows machine that I ever had when using IE.

Chrome is currently my favorite browser, I have it installed on every box I own except for my G5 iMac, because they didn't write a version to work with the PowerPC architecture.

I like how simple it is and the Facebook photo zoom extension is neat-o.

 

Safari/FireFox for me ..... and I see we have another G5 owner here

 

There is a version of the Chrome browser out there that allows you to accesss your Google account, but supplies no info back to Google HQ - I believe its named Chromium (after the initial protoytpe that jlobaugh mentioned). It's made specifically for privacy-conscious users, and it's NOT compiled by Google. That's the beauty of open-source.