*starts using Google Chrome once more*

… well, it looks like they’re backtracking now someone caught it, at least with the EULA and their owning whatever you type into the address bar. Now, your SEARCH RESULTS with the Omnibox, those are another story – and they will be keeping those.

If you want ‘official’ word on the features in question, including the Auto-Suggest which does the Google Searching. Note the link to the analysis of the EULA as well – and how they suggest that the BROWSER could be bringing ads into your PC in the future as well, in a spyware-like fashion.

Incidentally, I’m typing this on Chrome – but I’m using it on a backup computer that doesn’t touch my financial data.

It’s more likely than you think.

omo:

I’m more scared of the Google’s EULA, actually. Daddy longlegs are a dime a dozen around here, which is why I wrote this post. It’s a good thing lolikitsune has cleared things up, as I really want to use Chrome, too.

I mean, srsly, if you can choose between finding a daddy long legs on your desktop or a copy of google’s copypasta EULA on your desktop one morning, which would you pick?

As I’ve said, I’d rather err in the side of caution. What the clause stipulates is scary. Perhaps it’s not scary for you, but it is for me. I don’t want people looking at what I write or what I surf.

Second—EULAs in general are pieces of crap (hey have you seen Skype’s?).

Third—the content license in question is “for the sole purpose” of promoting services. It exists so that Google can make and distribute screencasts of Chrome in action and not get their asses sued when said screencasts include some random lamer’s blog which happens to have some intellectual property in it.

I’m sure that Google has similar clauses in the ToS for other services of theirs.

People don’t like suing Firefox so much. They love suing Google. They love it. It’s really, really simple—Google needs to cover their asses because American law and legal practice are fucked and its citizenship is trigger happy on retarded suits.

Last—Mike, you’re better than this.