[VIDEO] MSFT: Google Chrome Steals Your Privacy

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Business as usual in Microsoft. Every time MS has hard time keeping up with competitor they start spreading FUD. (Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt) For some time MS is trying to appear less 'evil' and someone from inside MS comes out to prove that internal culture of this corporation has not change at all.
Wise men sad it best: "The wolf will change its skin, but it will never change its character"
 
Doesn't matter how secure your browser is. Your computer is still owned by the botnet.
 
Anytime you type an address in the URL entry on any browser you are sharing information about where you are going. Whether it be the DNS provider, the ISP or the site you are visiting, any or all of them know you want to go there. Also, when you use the search bar on ie8, you are sharing information about your search with bing.

If you want to keep your information from getting into the hands of others, stay off the internet.
 
Incognito browsing doesn't send anything to Google, it uses the locally cached browsing history on your computer. Also, why did MS use Chrome 3.0 instead of the 4.0 that is out now? Yea, let's compare Chrome 4.0 with IE 6 and see how relevant that is today. Plus, the whole search bar in the address bar thing has no effect on security whatsoever. IE8 actually does the same thing, if your site doesn't come up with anything it just searches Bing. And pressing Ctrl+E brings up a question mark in Chrome indicating that you're searching Google instead of entering an address in. Try actually using the browser before you rip on it MS.
 
[citation][nom]Dirtman73[/nom]Google, the most intrusive corporation on the planet. Why do people still defend these jagoffs?[/citation]
FAIL+2!
 
Apparently the potential privacy breach was significant enough to warrant a version of Chrome without all Google tracking codes enabled. Enter the SRWare Iron, my webkit browser of choice.
 
You know there is an "Under the Hood" option to turn the suggestion services off if you really are that paranoid. It really is no different that the services running in IE and FF.

I used to use FF before Chrome came out but I was having problems with memory leaks developing if I left FF open too long, that's why I originally switched to Chrome.
 
[citation][nom]orionantares[/nom]You know there is an "Under the Hood" option to turn the suggestion services off if you really are that paranoid. It really is no different that the services running in IE and FF.[/citation]
Good to see someone knows and didn't bite down hard on this garbage video...I had a comment ready for sending but you basically summed it up for me. Little do some of these commenters know...Bing does it too ~wink~
 
...and just to prove how foolish some are here, I opened up IE8, started pressing characters in the BING search field, and VIOLA!...I was connecting to "api.bing.com" and sending the sequence of characters as a URL query on each stroke to fulfill search suggestions...same with Google Chrome but they do it for address suggestions/auto-complete as well. Good job people for believing this ploy HAHA
 
[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]Good to see someone knows and didn't bite down hard on this garbage video...I had a comment ready for sending but you basically summed it up for me. Little do some of these commenters know...Bing does it too ~wink~[/citation]

He mentioned both are default settings.
Average users like me don't know about "under the hood" stuff.
 
Looks like MSFT took the video down.

http://edge.technet.com/Media/Google-Chrome-steals-your-privacy/

I get nothin' but an error page.
 
[citation][nom]sliem[/nom]Yes yes how about you talk on disadvantages of IE8 compared with Chrome?[/citation]
He can't, it will exceed the 10 minute youtube time allocation.
 
[citation][nom]divilex[/nom]Google Chrome has a built in no-script feature in its content settings menu from Google Chrome 4.1. There are also many ad-block extensions available.[/citation]
Opera has built in "no script" and ad-blocker (among other things) including per site settings for ages...
 
[citation][nom]mayne92[/nom]I KNOW he mentioned default settings. So just because the settings are enabled by default makes Google Chrome in this case BAD? What if they were off by default?...would ppl then whine that they are off? [/citation]
Sense make you not...
 
[citation][nom]zoemayne[/nom]their just jealous google survived the hackathon. IE is the most unprivate browser b/c its widely used and literally every version has been hacked. Same goes for the OS.Their so silly for removing the video anything that gets put on the internet is permanent.[/citation]
So true
 
[citation][nom]Cryogenic[/nom]Actually this is the reason I don't use Chrome, I don't feel like being spied 24/7 by Google, no matter how much I like them. Firefox for the win![/citation]

Do you really think you're that important to Google? The worst they are going to do is have a bot analyze your searches and bombard you with ads that they think appeal to you.
 
Um no not it's not Dirtman. Really did they try to hide the fact of what chrome did. It sure didn't seem like it.

I want my emperor to tell me the truth wither I like it or not. Instead of one that when it's raining outside tells me the sun is shining bright.
 
And at regulas. I think you mean politicans period do that. When will you people freaking learn. The only difference between liberals, republicans, democrats is the way they screw you over. Plain and simple.

And zoeman you're right micrsoft os gets hacked a lot, but that doesn't make them less secure just less safe, and there is a difference. If any other OS got as popular it'd be the same damn thing.
 
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