Google Says "Whoops" to EULA Controversy.

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SySAdmin

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Google Says "Whoops" to EULA Controversy.

Wed Sep 3, 2008 5:30:10 PM #73821 Perm Link

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»Google Says \"Whoops\" to EULA Controversy.

So, Google Chrome came out yesterday, and most people blindly flocked to it en masse. However, many began noticing a disturbing message written in the EULA that made it sound like anything you do with the browser is the property of Google.

Today, Google said that was a mistake.

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Google's new web browser Chrome is fast, shiny, and requires users to sign their very lives over to Google before they can use it. Today's Internet outrage du jour has been Chrome's EULA, which appears to give Google a nonexclusive right to display and distribute every bit of content transmitted through the browser. Now, Google tells Ars that it's a mistake, the EULA will be corrected, and the correction will be retroactive.

As noted by an attorney at Tap the Hive and various and sundry other sites, the Chrome EULA reads like a lot of Google's other EULAs. It requires users to "give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and nonexclusive 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."

Linky.

I dunno if I like the idea of a Google web browser, especially with the Feds constantly trying to get Google to turn over private information. I'm glad that they clarified what everything meant in the EULA, but it also seems to me like they still have that information regardless. I think I'll stick to using Google only as a search engine.

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Aron Schatz

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Re: Google Says "Whoops" to EULA Controversy.

Wed Sep 3, 2008 5:52:24 PM #73823 Perm Link

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You've got that right.

Hell no am I going to be using this browser while Firefox is free and open and not backed by a company that seeks profits and data mining.

2014 is going to be a good year. More content, more streamlining. Be a part of history!

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Tetrodotoxin

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Thu Sep 4, 2008 2:35:31 PM #73842 Perm Link

Feh, tried it out yesterday.
It is indeed faster, But, it crashed whenever i did a bookmard. Than i said screw it. after reading this it was un-installed.

I enjoy the error mesage that its said though.:

Google Says "Whoops" to EULA Controversy.

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