Google manages to “do evil”, even whilst releasing open source browser
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Since Chrome was released a few weeks ago (see Bloggle’s Chrome coverage) [...]
Block ads in Google Chrome (and other tips)
No commentsProductivity blog Lifehacker had a few great posts about Chrome recently. First, ‘How to block ads in Google Chrome‘ does exactly what it promises - without the need for browser extensions (which aren’t yet available in Chrome). It’s all done via some free software called Privoxy:
1. Download and install Privoxy.
2. Click on the Wrench icon [...]
This blog has a lot of Chrome users!
2 comments so farDespite the Google Analytics blog claiming that Chrome usage stats wouldn’t be available in Analytics for a while, they have now announced that in fact stats are available.
As you can see, this blog seems to have a very unusual breakdown of browser usage with Chrome managing a huge 32.04%. On Bloggle at least it seems [...]
Google updates very unpopular EULA
No commentsWhen Google released Chrome on Tuesday, they made a mistake. The EULA (terms of service) stated that any content “submitted, posted or displayed on or through the browser” belonged to…Google.
Bad. Very bad. That would mean, if I used Chrome (I still can’t) to post to Bloggle, everything I wrote would belong to Google.This received a [...]
Google Chrome Tips (some of ours and some of yours)
No commentsSo it turns out that Google Chrome being released is the Google news of 2008 so far. It seems like that to me anyway and…I still can’t try it! Seems like there is a heck of a lot of traffic too. This blog hasn’t seen as much traffic as this before! Keep it coming!
Since there [...]