OSNews: http://www.osnews.com/story/23013/Google_Vows_to_Delete_Chrome_s_Unique_Client_ID Exploring the Future of Computing en-us Copyright 2001-2013, David Adams adam+nospam@osnews.com Mon, 20 May 2013 03:22:32 GMT http://www.osnews.com/images/osnews.gif OSNews.com http://www.osnews.com SRWare Iron http://www.osnews.com/thread?413878 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413878 IMHO SRWare Iron is still the better choice as Google apparently still sends information (like your IP address) home...

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron.php Tue, 16 Mar 2010 18:50:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (jello) Comments RE: SRWare Iron http://www.osnews.com/thread?413927 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413927 Actually, anything BUT google's products would be far better, especially if you want to stay secure and you want to save your privacy while surfing the internet.
Limited trust is what one needs. Besides - there are many other webkit-based web browsers ... some of them gives you actual control over your browser, they also throws some more options, not only 'home', 'stop' and taskbar Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:56:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (marcp) Comments RE: SRWare Iron http://www.osnews.com/thread?413964 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413964 http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:16:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (DhulKarnain) Comments Great http://www.osnews.com/thread?413971 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413971 Great, how are we supposed to catch the terrorists now? Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:15:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (kriston) Comments Wow, so new installs have it... http://www.osnews.com/thread?413981 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413981 Wow, so new installs have it, go to google.com, get a cookie (with a unique id) that get's stored in a database on google's servers (or whoever), and then the delete the unique id in the browser on the next update.

Pretty slick! Wed, 17 Mar 2010 18:30:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (CaptainN-) Comments Pretty slick! http://www.osnews.com/thread?413987 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413987 "Pretty slick!"

And what ??? .... who knows what info Microsoft may be taking and archiving from any pc in the world, while they assess them for updates, and the like? Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:35:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (xunil) Comments RE[2]: SRWare Iron http://www.osnews.com/thread?413988 http://www.osnews.com/thread?413988
Actually, anything BUT google's products would be far better, especially if you want to stay secure and you want to save your privacy while surfing the internet.

That's no use. The core servers and backbones of the Internet are owned by only a few companies and governments. If you want privacy, the sole way is not to find and put anything on the Web ;)

Limited trust is what one needs. Besides - there are many other webkit-based web browsers ... some of them gives you actual control over your browser, they also throws some more options, not only 'home', 'stop' and taskbar

What if you run Linux and actually want a browser with simple features and intuitive UI, multiple search engines built in the address bar, data that comes back when you click "back", does not crashes when flash or a rendering process crashes, and all that with excellent performance thanks to removed unused features ?

It's not just about Webkit. Tried Arora, and performance is many times worse than that of Chrome. Webkit does not do all the rendering work by itself, it needs a good backend.

And then... Most people use IE or Firefox now. It's not like google have taken over the web. Some day, when somebody's done a better product than Chromium for the Linux users who want simplicity, cool UI, and performance, it'll be time for chrome/chromium users to switch to a new product. But now, it's the best compromise I may find on Linux.Edited 2010-03-17 21:44 UTC Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:40:00 GMT donotreply@osnews.com (Neolander) Comments