Beware of the new Chrome beta browser

[Ozzie]

Some of us like to try the latest and great, even if it is a beta...

You should know a little something about the new Chrome beta browser...just read the EULA. This was taken from it:

"11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services.

11.4 You confirm and warrant to Google that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the above license."


...to make it simple. Everything you do (email, youtube movies, post, etc) with Chrome is owned by Google. According to the License.

They are also being sneaky...as in ads (popups) still load in the background so you don't see them, and they can still charge customers for them...hmmm...

 

[JiFaire]

'Way to go, Oz... I just freakin' HATE it when somebody sneaks that crap into the EULA, because it's SO hard to convince people to READ before they sign their rights away...

Nice catch, buddy.

 

[Ozzie]

Here's a link about the popups:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210300377

...and it appears they are already backing off the EULA:

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=12856

 

[Ozzie]

Thank you sir...

 

[JiFaire]

Man, I've been doing some research on Chrome, and I don't like it... something is steenky, seenyore...

Google's lawyers claim that the EULA was 'mistakenly' bundled with the browser, and are reportedly re-writing it to remove those clauses. So what? Big freakin' deal... if the browser had that level of 'spy' capability BEFORE they re-write the eula, it STILL has it after they change the EULA.

Several other things bother me just as much... the reported feed link to Google advertising, the relay and storage of the autocomplete library, and the reported ability of the browser to covertly perform tasks in the background, without user authorization.

Not in this lifetime.

Much more work to be done, here... I gotta agree with Ozzie - avoid this one until the mainstream hackers finish going through the source code for more surprises...

 

[JiFaire]

Oh, and you can find many more articles by searching with... you guessed it... Google.

Tell me; if it was discovered that a foreign power was spying on Americans, what do you think would happen?

What if you discovered the CIA was spying on Americans?

Is it different if Corporate America does it?