Google Chrome Can Fuck Right off
Posted on Tuesday, September 2, 2008If you plan to use Google’s new Chrome browser, just remember that the terms and conditions include this:
By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google
a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to
reproduce,
adapt,
modify,
translate,
publish,
publicly perform,
publicly display and
distribute any Content which you
submit,
post or
display
on or through, the Services.
This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services
and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.
11.2 You agree that this license includes a right for Google to make such Content available to
other companies,
organizations or
individuals
with whom Google has relationships for the provision of syndicated services,
and to use such content in connection with the provision of those services.
____________
OK?
Now. Here is my advice to you. Tell Google to shove their Chrome browser straight up their arse. (That would be the formal legal terminology. The colloquial language would involve advice to go and fuck themselves).
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Elsewhere:
Stumble it!
September 3rd, 2008
Couldn’t agree more.
Not so long ago I submitted some reviews to LoveFilm, and then found them on the Tesco web site. I was fucking furious. For a bunch of good reasons, beyond tesco being cunts, I must add.
Then I read their terms… And moaned so much they had to take them down. The cunts.
Do they honestly think such disclaimers remove my statutory rights? And frankly, if I submit anything anywhere via the new browser and it’s re-used, as a journalist and someone that makes their money through words what I sell etc, it can’t be re-used - copyright is innate and assumed, and a court will back that up.
Would be nice for someone with deep pockets who ain’t a journo to back that up, of course.
BTW Bock, loving the blog still. Been quiet of late (me not you!), keep up the good work…
September 3rd, 2008
There are some very informative comments here on Google Chrome - particularly today’s comments [Sept 3]
I was about to download [and install] it last night but hesitated when I read the TOS!
YIKES!
September 3rd, 2008
Well who’ve thought that GOOGLE would stoop so low?
September 3rd, 2008
Bock, looks like they are trying to backtrack
I am beginning to hate Google!
September 3rd, 2008
I see the shills are touting it on the internet. Google are a bunch of intrusive fuckers. It’s got a good rendering engine (same as Safari) and it might be useful if some one can script a ‘Customise Google’ Add-on for it! Any coding geniuses out there?
September 3rd, 2008
BTW, Scroogle is a very useful ‘front-end’ that allows you to encrypt your Google searches.
September 4th, 2008
I’m starting to think there’s something a bit sinister about Google.
And lately, I’m also starting to wonder about lesser entities like Akismet. I don’t like the way you can end up on a banned list just because somebody flags you.
It’s all very Soviet.
September 4th, 2008
Nothing can get me to leave Firefox tbh its just the best.
September 4th, 2008
Bock, Google have backed down on this. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/03/google_chrome_eula_sucks/
Now the eula states: “11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services.”
Should have just put that in the first place. I still don’t trust them though.
September 4th, 2008
as they say in office space, “Fucken eh!”
September 5th, 2008
Google Chrome seems to have taken Blogsphere by storm with everybody talking about it, after initial “Wow! its Awesome” reactions bloggers are now coming up with security flaws, copyright/privacy concerns and initial market share statistics.
http://www.megaleecher.net/Google_Chrome_Flaws
September 7th, 2008
Couldn’t agree more. Rubbish.
September 8th, 2008
I used to use IE. Then I moved onto FF. Some say I should try Safari, but from what I’ve read, FF has the best specs.
This is just my opinion. Others prefer Safari. Some even prefer IE and God knows what else.
The majority of us that use the internet, the youth, prefer new and flashy, because youth don’t know better. Programmers prefer functionality, because they do. Businessmen also prefer functionality, because we the programmers tell them that. The rest of us with half a braincell understand that functionality is way more important than flashy!
Since Chrome is in BETA stage, its marketing banner is new and flashy. FF and IE used this in the beginning, but its a matter of functionality that we are concerned about.
Can Chrome step up on functionality, or is it trying to revolutionize functionality?
In which case, if it is trying to change the way browser work even more, I say “BOO!”
We already have enough of this…
Then again, its only in BETA. Lets give it the benefit of the doubt, and hope Google isn’t just in it for the money!