Comments on: Google Chrome – What a browser should be -> Simple

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:28:14 +0000

@Steve: hmm ~~http://www.realprettychicks.~~, oops, caught in the act. I am more worried about what my girlfriend would do with me instead of the govt.

I see your point here.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 07:13:02 +0000

@Kevin: consider this… You already know your web surfing is being tracked by the gov, so…. you are typing in a url to a website, you _almost_ finish and hit enter, you then realize a visit to that site might be interpreted badly by the gov… so you decide to erase it and visit it later through a proxy or something… well, too late, that url already went out through the auto suggest feature… same thing for a “bad” search query which you decide to erase… it was already sent

And yea, my point wasn’t there is no way around this feature, it was the implications to the general public if the Chrome browser becomes widespread.

By: Huy

Huy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:36:51 +0000

ignore this post (I just want followups by email)

By: Huy

Huy — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:36:03 +0000

@Urko: Inspect Element was copied from the very popular Firebug extension to Firefox. Nothing new here. Firefox 3.1 is supposed to have a JS engine that they claim is faster than V8. So I wouldn’t worry too much about FF.

@Kevin: your web surfing only gets tracked by the gov if you dont’ have a proxy overseas that you can surf through. For those people who have already neutralized spying by gov agencies, the next lowest hanging fruit is now Google and their auto-suggest spying. By the way, no need to fork Chrome, there’s an option to disable Google Suggest in the URL.

By: SaigonNezumi (Kevin)

SaigonNezumi (Kevin) — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:17:49 +0000

@Steve: Here in Vietnam, I already know my web surfing is being tracked by the government. I agree with Tracy, if privacy becomes an issue, we can just use a forked version of Chrome. Still, while I live in Vietnam, everything I do online will be tracked so I just need to be a little more belligerent on what I do online.

I am curious to see what Google can do with the URL gathering. It would be nice if they can make website suggestions.

By: steve

steve — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 03:03:39 +0000

@Kevin: Email is email, browsing is browsing. I wouldn’t categorize one over the other. True, Google has all my mail already. But they don’t have the URL of every site I visit. If I start using Chrome as my main browser they will.

I’m actually ok with that, I’d rather have the useful suggestions than not let Google track my URLs. But I think it’s still an important change that most people don’t even recognize.