[ale] Google Chrome just got a lot better on Linux

[Jim Kinney]

I agree with you Jeff. And it's not just the tin-foil hat talking either.

Yet I also think we've already passed the point of no return.

You and many others use (myself included) use Google search daily
because it works. That ability to work is a direct result of the
constant tracking that they do. That search allows a data point of
topic and requester's IP.  The ALE list is mirrored on google groups
as an emergency backup medium. That means they also have the email
address of anyone who posts to the list. This now provides a directly
inferrable "interest route" that can be pegged against the IP address
and email address. The search links can now correlate between an email
persona and other people and can also obtain a fair estimate of
"degrees of separation" based on email correspondence and similarities
of search data.

Now couple that with "customer loyalty card" data and credit card
purchase data and it is quite easy to built up a solid profile with
fairly accurate personality profiles (Yikes! Free software/speech/beer
advocate alert!).  Google has Checkout already. Do they also provide
bulk mail services for Kroger and Publix? I don't know but is either
wanted to make sure their message made it past spam filters, sending
email coupons through Google mail servers would be a good way.

Somewhere a series of red blinking lights just activated....

On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Jeff Lightner<jlightner at water.com> wrote:
> Sorry but a company that keeps tabs on everything you do on the internet via
> little javascript embeds in every web page is unlikely to ever convince me
> to use them for my browser.  Firefox lets me block their little embed.   I
> use Google for searching but don’t think it is smart to use them for much
> more.
>
>
>
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> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Jim
> Philips
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 6:13 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: Re: [ale] Google Chrome just got a lot better on Linux
>
>
>
> Well, this definitely adds some fuel to the fire:
>
> http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>
> The Google OS is going to be a reality.
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:37 AM, Jim Philips <briarpatch.jim at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> There are already add-ons in an experimental state. I haven't tried to use
> them in Linux. But the work is under way.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 1:29 AM, Richard Bronosky <Richard at bronosky.com>
> wrote:
>
> Amen.
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 9:51 PM, Andrew Grieser<agrieser at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is there any plan for add-ons? It seems like they have to do something
>> similar to add-ons in order to win over Firefox users.
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 07:59:29PM -0400, Jim Philips wrote:
>>>    Well, Chromium really. I've been downloading the nightlies from here:
>>>    http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel#TOC-Linux
>>>    Today, there was a giant leap ahead in features. You can manage
>>> bookmarks,
>>>    save passwords, switch to a GTK theme and do a whole lot of other
>>> things
>>>    you couldn't do before today. I don't know if I'll prefer it over
>>> Firefox
>>>    or not. But it is *nice* to have a choice.
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