A “back of my mind” concern I have about Chrome.
I mentioned in my previous post about chrome that I didnt think I would use it as my permanant browser. There is a reason why I said that. Something happened to me a long while ago that has stuck with me. I blogged about it. You can read that blog to get the full details but here is the gist of what happened to me in the past.
I had adsense for a while, hadnt made any money, was new to blogging. I signed up to blogexplosion which is an auto-surf style website that is suppose to help you get traffic. After a while I signed up for google analytics and installed the code on the website. Shortly after I get a email from Google telling me that blog explosion was bad.
Like I said thats the short story, but the point of it is that before I installed analytics on my website, nobody cared if I was using blogexplosion. Why is it that all of a sudden the complaint came once I installed Google’s solution. Then I thought about it and figured that with analytics installed, Google has complete first hand info about what is going on on my website. I figured that first hand information was used to find out that blogexplosion was being used on my site.
Since then I removed blogexplosion and Google analytics. Told myself I will never use analytics again and I havent. Now that Chrome is released, making that your full time browser would give Google that same first hand information. This time it would be first hand info on what you are doing online.
Thinking about the Blogexplosion / analytics situation, do I really want to give Google that much info first hand again?
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September 12th, 2008 at 4:31 am
food for thought this. i wonder if any similar experiences will surface in light of more chrome usage.
September 12th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Ha, welcome to the G0og Empire. You will be assimilated. If you use Adsens3, Search, Tools etc. Go0gle already has a good idea of what you’re up to. Hence the failure of guys who try to set up new Ads3nse accounts after being booted.
PS: Your text on the front page looks black on a charcoal background, as it loads, in FireFox, at least. Took a few seconds for the white background to kick in. Made me think that here was someone ‘hardcore’ who wanted you to _work_ to read his stuff. Probably just my slow laptop, ‘though.
September 12th, 2008 at 10:56 pm
Chrome looks cool. I still think FireFox is gonna be the dominant one for a while.
September 14th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Yea I think the “mybloglog” widget slows the page load down some. I’m thinking about removing it altogether
September 15th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
I agree with the privacy (or lack thereof) especially as chrome uses Google Gears code (the desktop search and widget code). Although as this is open source it would be good for someone to develop a “non Google” version of Chrome.
September 16th, 2008 at 6:10 am
Nice post. Thanks for sharing.:)
September 18th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
I am using google chrome. and its great.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:39 am
What you say could be very much true, but they claim Chrome is open source means that you/we can check the code and find out how much of your privacy is taken… I would anyways patch it if necessary … Anyways I would still wait a lot of time before touching Chrome
Gustav
September 26th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Sure,
Google is in the business of making money. Everything they do is geared towards this. I sure they are logging data and where you are going. This is to further their dominance in the indusrty.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
the best thing about chrome is the speed of the browser. Other than that I prefer firefox as you can install a lot of cool plug ins
October 4th, 2008 at 11:46 am
I tried chrome once in a while, but prefer firefox for daily use
October 6th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
funny that chrome came out and everyone blogged about it, but now, I have heard nothing about it sense.
i still prefer FireFox as it has all the plugins I like.
October 25th, 2008 at 4:04 am
If chrome had the whole “add on” that would be my daily user.