Disambiguation: Chromium (dietary mineral)
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.chromium.org/Home/
A web browser compiled from the released source of //Google Chrome.
It’s simplicity is overdone to the point of losing functionality. Some of its preferences are so wrong that I can’t use it, and because it’s inflexible I can’t fix their mistakes.
Google Chrome is as trustworthy as Google .. which is to say that it’s not trustworthy.
Google’s informal motto is/was don’t be evil. They claimed to be pretty good guys.
However, Google has (as I figured) very obviously become Evil. Tracking.. hell, building activity webs. Why do you think they have all kinds of web developer services like captcha. They get to see who uses them.
So since they’re evil, I’ll stop using Google Search.
Instead, I’ll use DuckDuckGo. They claim to be pretty good guys.
Hey wait.
Google nukes meta search engines >
Since Radar magazine doesn’t have it anymore (archive.org archive), and Scroogle isn’t showing it, here is the short story which inspired Scroogle:
This short story was published in the October 2007 issue of Radar magazine. This story is copyrighted Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States (CC-BY-NC-SA) There is also a list of translations of this story. I don’t know how many of those links are still good. Use archive.org if something’s gone missing.
Scroogle is gone.
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.youtube.com/
A video hosting website.
It used to be great, but Google took it over, removed video responses, fucked up comments and left the service in shambles.
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https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996
Did you know about this? I didn’t. Thanks to some random surfing and an EFF post, I just learned of it.
With this browser plugin you can permanently opt out of the DoubleClick cookie, which is an advertising cookie that Google uses. The plugin lets you keep your opt-out status for this browser even when you clear all cookies.
Google >
was gears.google.com
http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-gears.html
Gears is an open source project that enables more powerful web applications, by adding new features to your web browser.
There’s no way in hell will I use something that grabs system access like this.
2011-03-11 it was thankfully abandoned.
