Google trying to save me money

[swarfrat]

Can't visit the toy factory's website using Google Chrome - anyone else having problems? I appreciate them trying to help me save my money though, but it still works in Firefox! Bwa ha ha.

 

[Graffiti62]

I used it briefly when it came out, but when I had to re-image my PC, I never put it back on. It always gave me the impression of something that was originally written by a high schooler to run in Linux. I would have given it a B+ if I were grading programs, but it always felt to me that it needed a little more work.

Google Toolbar, though.........let's not get started on that......

 

[m4rk0]

I love Chrome and won't use anything else... I tried opera for a while, but that was driving me crazy - the wife is still using Firefox
W.com is working perfectly for me right now.

 

[CrackedPepper]

Just tried it in Chrome, Firefox, IE8 and Safari.  None of them are trying to save me money

 

[bagman67]

I find that stuff gets stupid and wacky in Chrome when I need to clear my cache.  This forum, for example - the "unread posts" function doesn't work once in a while, and every time that happens, it goes back to proper function when I clear the cache.  Okay, I get it, Chrome shouldn't flake out that easily - but overall I prefer it as a browser, so this is a wart I can live with.

 

[swarfrat]

I'm kinda torn - Firefox is often slow. Flash on linux is kinda flaky - especially 64 bit and especially in Chrome. But the fact that each tab runs in its own thread means some flaked out flash on some random web page doesn't freeze my entire browser. THAT is worthwhile.

 

[Cagey]

I'm one of those Weird Harolds who actually reads EULAs, so I can't use Chrome. Try it sometime. Without going into all kinds of detail, I'll just say it's terrifying. To be avoided at all costs.

Last I read, Firefox was the fastest browser out, but that war ebbs and flows like the tide. Next month, it may be Safari. In any event, speed is largely dependent on the servers these days. You can have a 20Gb connection like I do, but if the servers don't talk at those speeds (and almost none do), it's a waste. It's like owning a Ferrari in the US. So, take all the speed specs with a grain of salt.

 

[JimBeed]

I'm one of those Weird Harolds who actually reads EULAs, so I can't use Chrome. Try it sometime. Without going into all kinds of detail, I'll just say it's terrifying. To be avoided at all costs.

Last I read, Firefox was the fastest browser out, but that war ebbs and flows like the tide. Next month, it may be Safari. In any event, speed is largely dependent on the servers these days. You can have a 20Gb connection like I do, but if the servers don't talk at those speeds (and almost none do), it's a waste. It's like owning a Ferrari in the US. So, take all the speed specs with a grain of salt.

Yup heard from friends into reading that stuff and everything that they pretty much can steal anything you post online........
......even your wife!!!!!  :laughing7:

 

[Jusatele]

guess I am really strange, I have chrome and Firefox set up for whatever works best in them, Forums work best in a linux based client my brother wrote though. so I guess I use 3 clients.

 

[Cagey]

I'm not saying Chrome doesn't work well, just that it does things that I don't like as far as data collection and reporting. For example, it essentially runs a keylogger fed by the address bar. Every key you press goes back to Google. That's not speculation, Google hatred or some kind of nervous tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, it's spelled out in the EULA - they admit to it right in front of God and everybody. I'm not doing anything illegal so there's nothing to worry about per se, but I also don't do anything illegal in the bedroom and I don't allow strangers in there, either.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I'm not saying Chrome doesn't work well, just that it does things that I don't like as far as data collection and reporting. For example, it essentially runs a keylogger fed by the address bar. Every key you press goes back to Google. That's not speculation, Google hatred or some kind of nervous tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, it's spelled out in the EULA - they admit to it right in front of God and everybody. I'm not doing anything illegal so there's nothing to worry about per se, but I also don't do anything illegal in the bedroom and I don't allow strangers in there, either.

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I'd like to know why, apart from the main game,  money. I'm sure that the data that they collect id soo much more of a shit stir then what they tell you they intend to use it for.

 

[Cagey]

I'm not saying Chrome doesn't work well, just that it does things that I don't like as far as data collection and reporting. For example, it essentially runs a keylogger fed by the address bar. Every key you press goes back to Google. That's not speculation, Google hatred or some kind of nervous tinfoil-hat conspiracy theory, it's spelled out in the EULA - they admit to it right in front of God and everybody. I'm not doing anything illegal so there's nothing to worry about per se, but I also don't do anything illegal in the bedroom and I don't allow strangers in there, either.

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I'd like to know why, apart from the main game,  money. I'm sure that the data that they collect id soo much more of a shitee stir then what they tell you they intend to use it for.

Money is the ONLY game. They don't just sell the data, they pre-qualify it to the Nth degree, so it's worth a great deal more and commands a much higher price. Subscriber lists have long been used as a form of income for those who aggregate them, but Google has distilled it to fine art. It's their whole reason for existence, and why they're so rich. You can buy data that's refined so far that a list of 500 names is worth dramatically more than a list of 500,000 because it's so finely focused. You want to advertise to people who like hiking in the morning, don't like guns, watch girl-on-girl interracial porn, are vegans, have jobs that make between $55K and $90K annually, don't vacation in third-world countries, have at least 4 credit cards, use clumping cat litter and vote republican? They can pull up a list of people that fit that demographic in .013 seconds. Advertisers jump on that sort of list like flies on feces because they know they're going to have a high success rate selling whatever it is they have that they think appeals to that sort of person. What's the New York Times subscriber list worth? It's huge - you'd think it'd be worth a lot - but all you know is they subscribe to a liberal newspaper. Well, duh! What other kind is there? So you're going to have to work much harder to make money off it. It's a lot easier to bombard 500 people with spam than it is 5 million, if for no other reason than time.

Plus, who knows what kind of back-room deals they have going with the government, banks, and insurance companies? Those folks wish with all the fervor of a 4 year old at Christmas that they could collect the kind of data Google does. I gotta think that's why they don't get buried in court over some of the things they do right out in the open. It's also why Microsoft has such a hard-on to get into that business. Thank God they're so incompetant they'll never pull it off successfully.

 

[Wana_make_a_guitar]

I'm just sitting here trying to think of all the bad things that could happen due to this money making scheme. There's a good book in this this story somewhere.

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

Well, if an internet forum wasn't enough of a sign, I really just found out who all of the nerds are.