Mini Mods - Block Google's CHROME-Browser

This Modification blocks all visitors using Google's CHROME-browser from your vBulletin.

Those users get a message in their Google-Browser that they should use any other browser and come back

[nanaimobar]

There are sites for families, for children, and for everyone in-between that are private because they don't want their personal information or discussions stored by google or other search engines or accessed by someone with questionable intentions.

Introducing a browser that has the ability to add information of any nature to an already huge collection of information on you in order to deliver ads more tailored to the user of that browser (and charge a higher premium for I would suspect) would not be welcomed by owners of sites offering privacy for families, children, battered women, people with aids, etc.

Some sites, such as the ones I operate, do not use google ads or google analytics or allow search engines and do not allow Chrome for the simple reason that the members want some privacy and security while using my sites.

Until the privacy of data collected by Chrome has been tested in court it is banned from the sites I run that offer members a level of privacy and security not normally found on the net. And no, there is no adult material on my sites.

Other contributors to this thread welcome Chrome as it serves the purpose of their site. Other site owners don't because it serves the purposes of their site.

[badboyz]

Originally Posted by Hasann

From Google:

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights you already hold in Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content which you submit, post or display on or through, the Services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html

thanks for such a lovely quote google is always been evil...

[mrwuss]

Originally Posted by badboyz

thanks for such a lovely quote google is always been evil...

you do know that this is no longer the case, right?

You did more research on your own, right?

[DoubleGlasses]

I'm just wondering - and please feel free to correct me... but doesn't chrome offer an incognito mode which is supposed to track nothing? Now I understand as much as the next person, that Google is simply the Umbrella Corporation in the making ( Resident Evil come to life? ).

[imedic]

At this rate in 5 years will surf the net with Chrome, search with Google, mail with gmail, use Gwindows as operating sistem and have credit cards Gfinancial ... just for the sake of having better ads
Is admirable what the founders did with Google but growing to be a multinational corporation can change the original intention of the founders (to help you find stuff on the net) to the more prozaic and understandable goal of making more money. Stripping of the moral values could led to nasty stuff in the future so I will better stop a good product than have the suspicion that can lead to unwanted control over my info.

I am from a former comunist party and from stories I have heared from my father comunism has landed smoothly in the minds of simple people untill it was tool late.

And just another comment: How many of your forum users know more than just clicking links in a browser already installed? Let along find a setting or know about it.

May it is a good adition to this mod a less violent aproach: Detect the browser and just display a warning notice (and let him browse):
You are using XXXXX a potential unsafe browser please see here more details... For safer browsing experience we recomend ...

So you show concern about your users browsing safety. Stopping him will just piss him off because he will not understand the reason.

As second option you can buy Google and change the aproach

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by imedic

but growing to be a multinational corporation can change the original intention of the founders (to help you find stuff on the net) to the more prozaic and understandable goal of making more money. Stripping of the moral values could led to nasty stuff in the future so I will better stop a good product than have the suspicion that can lead to unwanted control over my info.

How exactly the goal of making more money strips of the moral values?

[nerofix]

Originally Posted by imedic

May it is a good adition to this mod a less violent aproach: Detect the browser and just display a warning notice (and let him browse):
You are using XXXXX a potential unsafe browser please see here more details... For safer browsing experience we recomend ...

So you show concern about your users browsing safety. Stopping him will just piss him off because he will not understand the reason.

Yes good idea. I'd like also to tell our users something like that. ... or "because we care about our user's privacy, you are not allowed to use a browser made by the american maffia .. please reinstall your system to be sure that no hidden google chrome code left on your system. After the reinstall, enjoy browsing the internet without the spyware installed."

[MadK]

Indeed, a message would be great instead.

[imedic]

Originally Posted by Michelle

How exactly the goal of making more money strips of the moral values?

Well I have worked for a very big American multinational company with very strong moral culture ( at least advertised like this) and found my self approving a product advertised as with plants extracts (implying the benefits of herbals) but have just traces of herbal extracts (admited internal by the company to have irelevant effect)!
Yes they cover themselfs that adding other ingredients give antiinflamatory efect of the herbal advertised. So they more or less deliver the benefits advertised but lie about it.
And for ... with propolis product they cover just antiinflamatory efect out of many other benefits of real propolis.

This is just a small example from a company in the spot light and with a very strong moral culture.
Note; I quit for a better job not for moral grounds

Imagine guns, ammo, pharmaceutical companies ....

Let me give other imaginative examples:
Imagine you make research in your company for a cure treatment of a chronical disease.
You found both , a cure and a treatment for the simptoms.
Do the math if you release both:
1. Cure. One treatment = patient cured no need to buy more.
2. Treatment for simptoms = patient makes repeted purchase of your product
Shure you launch first the treatment ...

Imagine you make guns ....
Would you promote peace !
I am not saying is valid for all but bigger the company less likely moral grounds to be avoided. Again is not a rule but is likely.
And thumbs up for the founders of Google just open eyes for corporation Google

Ontopic: You can develop more the mod to display specific messages for different browsers.
This way you can warn users if security problems appear using that specific browser. Or just notify some functionality of your site will not work with the browser visitor has.
Maybe to notify scripts are disabled, so ajaks is not working ...

@ nerofix Go for positive approach : Free beer for Firefox users

[yumyumcat]

What good would sending a message to a multi-billion dollar conglomerate do? They'd just laugh.

I think the mod's pretty awesome. I don't care how great a browser is. I'm tired of big brother spying on me.