Comments on: EFF: We're concerned about Google's Omnibox

The Internet advocacy group says the Chrome browser is a mixed bag with some advances, but worries about its phone-home feature.

[humanssssss]

Users should have their own privacy policy in place to ensure anything that is installed on their computer comply with their own privacy policy. Most companies who create application want to STEAL users data. Personal data is very important to a person survival and if in the wrong hand can incriminate him/her. Google has shown in the past to have violated the trust of its users by sharing personal data to the government. People are locked up because of this.

[sdandrew75]

Don't like it. Don't use it.

[MamaGlue]

thats bad

[n3td3v]

Spyware, FTW.

[Vegaman_Dan]

We know not only what you actually typed, but now we also know what you didn't type, citizen. We know all about that 'typo' you did at 7:32 AM on September 3, 2008 that included the terms, "violence", "terrorism, and "Jello pudding pops'. You can expect a visit from our agents in the Google Patrol Cars any moment.

[ericthepuce]

Every aspect of your "personal" information, likes and dislikes, shopping habits, etc., is known to any major company that wishes to obtain it. Google isn't doing anything different. Gathering that information to make Google "think" more like us is exactly why we all depend on them as our primary tool in everyday life now. I think that reading 1984 has made us all understandingly cautious, but we should be careful of viewing things as strictly black or white.

[Quest4Knowledge]

I'll give Google the benefit of the doubt until Chrome is out of Beta... but Chrome installs numerous Google components that are not specifically called out in the EULA, although probably covered in the clever legalize in some manner. Unfortunately, these comoponents do not uninstall with Chrome, continue to run in the background on machines after Chrome is uninstalled.

[murbo]

if you don't like it, don't install it, its that simple... unlike Internet Explorer or Safari.. or even Firefox, it doesn't install itself by default settings on your OS installation CD.
@humanssssss: people got locked up because of it? right, cuz they didn't do anything illegal.. only thing they did wrong was to use google. sheesh... like yahoo or ms wouldn't give out personal user info if the g-man asked them.. lol like anyone would ask ms for personal data collected by the search engine

[DarkHawke]

It DOES install its own update monitor, exclusive of Chrome and running by itself on start-up. I know because after reading Quest4Knowledge's post above, I looked, found the little bugger and nuked it, i.e. stopped it from auto-running at start-up. Only Chrome shows up in the Add/Remove Programs

[docbob24503]

Wake up, Neo...
Follow the white rabbit..

[john55440]

Just Say No to Big Brother Google. They are in the business of collecting personal information for advertising purposes, and that is the purpose of their products/services.

[Kwasiowusu]

Walter Mossberg: IE 8.0 Trumps Chrome, Other Browsers:

The latest beta version of Internet Explorer is a "step forward in privacy protection," Mossberg says, citing IE 8's ability to prevent Web sites from collecting your personal data. That level of protection is something neither Chrome nor existing browsers like Firefox and Safari can match, while other concerns about Chrome and privacy have already emerged.

For all the hoopla over Chrome, "the second beta version of IE8 is the best edition of Internet Explorer in years," Mossberg declares in his review. "It is packed with new features of its own, some of which are similar to those in Chrome, and some of which, in my view, top Chrome's features."

http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/52944/Privacy-Matters%3A-Mossberg-Says-IE-8.0-Trumps-Chrome%2C-Other-Browsers

It's easy. Avoid intrusive spyware, and Google KGB style spying on American citizens(Google co-founder Sergey Brin is Russian). JUST SAY NO TO CHROME!

[Dalkorian]

Make sure to tell the Bill that you have done his bidding. Maybe he'll send you a check. He should, with all the prostituting you do for M$.

Hmm, when surfing websites you don't control, is it better to use an application that runs on top of an OS (like most applications do) or an application that is intimately tied into the OS? IE is the plague of the internet and needs to be killed in the most gruesome fashion. Period.

Note: I haven't installed Chrome myself and see no need at this point. When on a Mac, I'm perfectly happy with Safari. When not on a Mac, Firefox is the browser for me. If Chrome gets popular enough, I might give it a spin. But for now I also have issues with a new beta browser that reports everything I do back to the mother ship.

[umbrae]

I can understand sending the stuff typed in (it has to go to Google anyway right), but collecting and storing IP addresses is just stupid. Google was such a good company, but the "do no evil" motto was tossed in the bucket long ago.

[Kwasiowusu]

@ Dalkorian : "Make sure to tell the Bill that you have done his bidding. Maybe he'll send you a check'

Naaaah.
I'll merely take some of that fat check Google is paying you to spew out Google mindless propaganda.

@ Dalkorian : "Hmm, when surfing websites you don't control, is it better to use an application that runs on top of an OS (like most applications do) or an application that is intimately tied into the OS?"

Ummm..the Google spyware in Chrome that records every keystroke you make, and sends all that data to the Google server, had nothing to do with Microsoft or Windows. It's a henious crime that was cooked up and carried by Google all by themselves.

@ Dalkorian : " IE is the plague of the internet and needs to be killed in the most gruesome fashion. Period"

IE 8 is a superior browser than Chrome. Period!