On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 08:40:06PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: > Martin Visser <[email protected]> writes: > > On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Brett Mahar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> You might like to check out SW Iron instead of Chrome, it is the same > >> thing but without the many Google tracking devices built-in: > >> > >> http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php > > > > You just gotta love that SRware are obviously down on "Google tracking" yet > > are quite willing to take their money by offering Google Ads on both the > > side and bottom of their page. > > Yeah. FWIW, once you start to poke at that the whole thing ... aw, heck. > Let me just add to this an excerpt from the Debian mailing lists when this > same thing came up: > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=50358 > > At the time SRWare also used a service provider that used pop-under > advertising to make money. > > So, yeah. As far as I can see this is, in essence, an implementation of the > principal that if you pander to paranoia then you can make money from ... the > folks who care enough to worry about privacy, but not enough to actually do > the research themselves.
Ditto, when I tried it it had some annoying things about it. A better option these days would be the daily builds. Doesn't come with the update service though, so I turn flash and all the other crapola in it - if it has it. Tools->Preferences->Under the Hood->Content Settings->Disable Individual Plug-ins -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
