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Originally posted by CookieRevised
To be very honest, those security issues should have been fixed _before_ it went public. And they could have, since the very same stuff is already fixed in Safari, before Chrome went to public, which uses the exact same engine.
The reason I cry out so loud in this thread is _exactly_ because the 'lesser educated people', like vaccination calls them, do not know they will be vulnerable to such security issues and possible snooping.
Heck, I bet not many of you (incl. me) would have know about the security issues, Chrome's policy, the possible snooping, etc, if it wasn't for Sunshine posting those links and some people actually reading those links and looking further into it then just the (very nice looking) surface....
Why are you being such an idiot?
I'll give you the carpet-bombing flaw, but every other one of your points is just bullshit.
from
this page:
"Your copy of Google Chrome includes one or more unique application numbers. These numbers and information about your installation of the browser (e.g., version number, language) will be sent to Google when you first install and use it and when Google Chrome automatically checks for updates. If you choose to send usage statistics and crash reports to Google, the browser will send us this information along with a unique application number as well."
Oh, wow, an anonymous application number is sent when you update or send a crash report. The world is ending! Google are going to hack your life using this number and steal your babies!
One new Chrome feature shows the six most popular pages when opening any new tab. Chrome gets these linkable thumbnails by taking "snapshots of most pages you visit (except for secure pages with 'https' Web addresses, such as some bank pages)." Well that one ought to catch lots of porn surfing teens, when a parent opens a Chrome tab.) Sure, browsers save images and other files in a Web cache. But these snapshots would make a tidy browsing history if mined by a third party.
OH WHAT?!? Chrome is storing images of my webpages locally on my computer and they're not being sent to Google?! How dare they! It's not like they're actually used for something.. oh wait, they are. They're used for a nice thumbnail feature to show your past 6 pages. That's so evil!
"If you use Google Chrome in incognito mode, it will not transmit any pre-existing cookies to sites that you visit. Sites may deposit new cookies on your machine while you are in incognito mode, however. These cookies will be temporarily stored and transmitted to sites while you remain in incognito mode. They will be deleted when you close the browser or return to normal browsing mode."
Do you know how the Internet works? If incognito mode didn't keep session cookies for the session then how is your porn-loving 50-year-old neighbour going to keep himself logged into his pay-for porn site while in incognito mode? Didn't think about that, did you?
Lastly, the EULA which had
copy pasted parts from their other EULAs which has now been fixed. God, isn't Google just
evil?
