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

[Diggazz]

Thanks for the MOD
Installed

[michael5472]

Just installed and got this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ']', expecting T_STRING or T_VARIABLE or T_NUM_STRING in /home/davidkey/public_html/includes/init.php(293) : eval()'d code on line 8

When i try and access my admin CP - PLEASE HELP ME

[michael5472]

Also whenever i try and access a thread

[Webnower]

This is just hilarious. Even if you abhor the browser and want nothing to do with it, why would you block traffic to your site by using this? It's amazing that any of you have any measure of success with your sites at all.

What the OP is doing here is nothing short of delivering disinformation about what is otherwise a great addition to the "browser wars". Fear-mongering, short-sighted and laughable. Before you have a tin-foil-hatgasm, look into it for yourself rather than letting some random article or uneducated mental midget tell you what to think.

Is everyone really that terrified of a browser that reports 2 percent of it's usage statistics, if you have the option for it to do so turned on? Seriously. Doesn't Firefox have this exact same option?

As far as blocking it for rendering/style reasons... It's WebKit. Same thing they use in Safari... So unless you're blocking all the Safari users too, I don't see the point. I have an idea... Check and see for yourself. Everything looks fine. This isn't Internet Explorer 5.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/...-terms-of.html

[michael5472]

ok i fixed it by removing the

? eval : false

from the line <--- now uninstalled for take 2

[michael5472]

ok got this error on re-install

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ral_canclose() in /home/davidkey/public_html/forumdisplay.php(955) : eval()'d code on line 85

After 2 "different" errors i think its not worth it <--- even just to see if it worked (like i always do)

Thanks anyway

[michael5472]

great this has screwed my forums completly

I now get this EVEN AFTER IT IS UNINSTALLED !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Fatal error: Call to undefined function ral_canclose() in /home/davidkey/public_html/showthread.php(375) : eval()'d code on line 130

You think Google is a problem ???

[WNxWakko]

Wow, just WOW!

Installs: 29 <--- people that dont know any better. Why would you want to block any traffic to your site? Google spiders get all the information about your site, so I dont see how this mods adds any value.

If you are paranoid about privacy and you think the browser is the issue, you really should be creating a mod to block Internet Explorer created by the spy king Microsoft. Even so, privacy issues are based on what you choose to use as your browser, not what is visiting your site.

Good luck with this.

[Shelley_c]

What is it with you people thinking that people who choose (well within their right) to block chrome are worried about privacy issues. There's other reasons why people will choose to install this script (which I've stated in this post).

I for one don't care to style for yet another browser so that is my reason for the installation of this script. Like the author stated "use it, don't use it" it's your choice. So rather than repeating what everyone been typing and being presumptuous, there are other reasons why people choose to install this hack.

I'm lazy, hate styling so my choice is justified in my books.

[Webnower]

How exactly does Chrome render differently from Safari? They use the same rendering engine - WebKit. Do you block Safari/Mac users as well?

You're well within your right to not make any sense whatsoever; I just wish someone could explain exactly WHY blocking access to a site based on truly bogus "style issue" reasons makes sense to them.

Even if there are style issues (and there really aren't any based on the hundereds of forums I've already visited), how does giving someone a big "YOU CAN'T COME HERE" message make any more sense than letting your site look funny, have the user assume it's their browser and switch on their own accord if THEY choose to do so?

The lack of logic presented here is flabbergasting.