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

[Jase2]

I'm not installing this, but would like to make a comment.

I've seen comments about people moaning about this hack. Ridiculous! I mean, no one is forcing you to use this.

[Lea Verou]

Originally Posted by imedic

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

Personally, I've seen more small companies be less moral, for the following reasons:

1. Small companies are generally managed by their owner(s), who are more prone to lowering their moral values for money. Big companies are managed by employees (managers) who have different interests than the owner(s). Also, managers are forced to be educated, whereas for owner(s) there is no such obligation.
2. If a big company makes a mistake, the effects will be far more dramatic than those for a small company, so it has to be twice as careful.

[imedic]

Well you are wright, but the impact of small company is far less harmfull that one of a big one gowing wrong.
And yes nobody is forcing you to use this mod.
Usp sorry for offtopic.

[shimpaku]

OK...I just installed Chrome yesterday and it lasted for only three hours!
I found out that it doesn't support WYSIWYG editor so, that was that and it's now gone. Other than that everything on it worked just fine as far as displaying my two sites flawlessly.

Yes, I realize that this is not what the discussion is really about so let me get to another more pertinent point here. It's a well known fact that Google is a powerful entity and will continue to be so. Hell, stop and think about your Firefox (which I have used for years)! Google is and has been a very integral part of FF for sometime now!

Now consider this. The top two browsers as of now are I.E. and FF. Knowing the track record of Google I would not at all be surprised that in the years to come that the Google browser, albeit it may not be called "Chrome", may very well become one of the top browser's.

I think that this paranoia of Google is getting a bit absurd and akin to the McCarthy era of having a Communist under every bed sheet! For those that firmly believe Google is an evil entity then by all means continue doing so. If that is true than in all honesty I would have to lump in Microsoft with them!

The simple point being is that one of the hardest things in getting a forum site started and off the ground is in gaining members! Granted, and it has been pointed out many times here, that if one does not wish to install this mod is to simply....not install it! Most, if not many here, know more than the average "potential" member who may happen upon your site and become curious as to it's content are more technically oriented than they. If they should happen to do so and see that they are not allowed in because of the browser they are using (Google Chrome) I can most emphatically assure you they will not return! They will not understand why and will simply move on with a possible exiting utterance of "screw you"! I know for a fact I would do the same.

What happens if indeed Google "Chrome" or, whatever it may be called in the future, becomes the number one, two or three browser on the Internet! Thanks.....but no thanks. I think the mod is a tad ridiculous and a premature thing to install on ones forum but, that's just my opinion. I'll be damned if I'm going to take the chance of even losing one potential member when more than likely they will in no way understand as to why they are being turned away!

~Phil

[snowman872]

Lamest mod ever. :down:

[sensimilla]

Excellent idea.

[Skitty]

Thanks very much, excellent mod.. Perfect for private websites, why all the whining ?

[Alfa1]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/project.php?issueid=26408" target="_blank">Google Chrome browser allows members to give reputation to the same person as often as they like.</a>

[shimpaku]

Originally Posted by Skitty

why all the whining ?

I don't consider it whining but simply people stating what they consider as unfounded and somewhat hysterical paranoia!

"Paranoia strikes deep.....into your heat it will creep"! Jeez....give me a freaking break!
Like someone else posted, why not just turn your damn computer off and get it over with!

Maybe go back to snail mail for doing all of our transactions or possibly carrier pigeons!
Nah...then again we'd have to be afraid of the mail man reading our mail or the possibility of the pigeon's being bred and trained by evil and monstrous Google man!

Everyone, lock all of your doors, hide under the bed and be very,very afraid!
The Google man is hungry and out to devour all of us!

I don't have Chrome simply because I don't care for it...yet. Not because I'm afraid of it although I am deathly afraid of kittens, puppies and butterflies!

~Phil

[Skitty]

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