Google's Donating Money for Every Tab You Open

[JMcEntegart]

Your tabulous browsing habits can help raise money for charity.

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[joelmartinez]

I use Opera...

 

[chickenhoagie]

time to bring up my autoclicker..

heres to all the thirsty humans out there!

 

[jerreece]

This is both a marketing campaign for Google, and Chrome, and a means to have thousands of people voluntarily install a plug-in which monitors your activity so Google can analyze all the data.

At least they're going to donate $1 million to some charities.

 

[Marco925]

i can so see a 4chan meme coming from this where everyone opens up 100 tabs and cost google alot of money.

 

[blakphoenix]

Why such a low cap..? 🙁

 

[enzo matrix]

The more you press ctrl+t, the more google donates. But the count appears to require a 1 full second between each new tab. I guess they want to avoid people pressing and holding ctrl+t

 

[jskilnyk]

This is the kind of advertising I support! Open away boys!

 

[the_krasno]

[citation][nom]blakphoenix[/nom]Why such a low cap..?[/citation]

Still, when you have 1M you can buy lots of stuff in large quantities for a significantly lower price.

Meaning is, Google can do more with one mill than you or me could because they are a company and they have permits/credit to purchase HUGE amounts of stuff to give to charity.

Still, I agree, that cap is low and is going to be maxed in a day. I hope they extend the cap once that happens.

 

[shovenose]

i already did the max of 250 tabs. ctrl+t lol

 

[K-zon]

The one issue with it is the time frame and money amount, if the time frame was longer and maybe more money was into it, could be something to feel warm and fuzzy about longer without other weird stuff, cause i gotta redownload myself.

 

[xantek24]

here, here! to Project Purity!

 

[servarus]

How nice of them...

 

[The_Prophecy]

250 tabs in a VM.... I don't use Chrome, I just like making Google spend money... good cause or otherwise.

 

[Benihana]

Open up your porn on those tabs and know that your helping the needy...

 

[TunaSoda]

I hate tabs, never use them EVER

 

[tubers]

Sweet! I am happy about this. I open up multiple tabs across 2 monitors daily! I hope this isn't a virus

 

[willgart]

1million only??? is it a joke?
and they use the users as an excuse for this?
a lot of companies donate this amount without asking their customers to participate in a game.
if they say we'll spend a maximum of 1billion, I will participate. for 1billion a company can call the public to achieve the goal.
but 1million for google... its ridiculous.

 

[clist]

I still doesn't understand why having multiple tabs locked into one window is better then simply opening pages in new windows. When they are in new windows I can still "flick between them" with my alt-tab and I can move them where I like on my desktop if I want to see more than one. I've tried using tabs maybe 3 times and each time I asked myself "why?"

 

[chrisg683]

The point here isn't to be charitable. It's to snoop on your data and gain valuable marketing information.

They'll be sifting through your browsing long after they've hit the cap, that's the point

 

[rubix_1011]

I want to see the proof of Google actually doing it...photos, links, videos, etc.

If this really is the case, the entire world would be making this a headline.

People will believe and do anything if they think its 'generosity' like advertised...do you not think for a second this won't benefit Google in some way? Please...they will generate millions of dollars due to this stunt.

Stop blindly believing they are genuinely good and selfless for doing something like this.

 

[milktea]

So charity is the latest marketing strategy?

 

[vittau]

I'd rather have Google donate the 1M already, this is bull****...

 

[malphas]

In summary, Google are donating a million dollars to charity, which is routine practice for organisations that size, and scamming a bunch of people into using Chrome in the process.

 

[awood28211]

Useless. $1 million? Four days of participation?

What I read here is that... this cause doesn't need me because the limit has already been exceeded. It's not worth my changing my browser for only 4 days...