Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
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Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#2Interesting how things have changed in the past 17 years!
Google of today, would rather own one's thoughts if they could, let alone things we write in their address bar.
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#3Is this still the case?
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#5Looks like this article might need a new "Updated" entry because current chrome ToS points to generic : https://policies.google.com/terms
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#6Great find. Yes, things are different now. So too for SaaS.
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#7Interesting how things have changed in the past 17 years! Google of today, would rather own one's thoughts if they could, let alone things we write in their address bar.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting—on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark—that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
-Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, 1971
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#8Matt Cutts was one of the Google search OGs.
The kind of cultural values (e.g. make user happy all else will follow) he and a number of other original Google employees believed in and tried to defend have loooong been overridden by the Sundars and other Prabakhars who only kowtowed to the short-term demands of wall street.
Cutts, Ben Gomes and similar-minded do-gooders have all neatly been benched a long time ago.
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#9Interesting how things have changed in the past 17 years! Google of today, would rather own one's thoughts if they could, let alone things we write in their address bar.
There was madness in any direction, at any hour. If not across the Bay, then up the Golden Gate or down 101 to Los Altos or La Honda. . . . You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . . And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we did…
Per “Breakfast with Hunter” that’s his favorite piece of writing of his career. Great citation.
Re: Google does not want rights to things you do using Chrome (2008)
#10Matt Cutts was one of the Google search OGs. The kind of cultural values (e.g. make user happy all else will follow) he and a number of other original Google employees believed in and tried to defend have loooong been overridden by the Sundars and other Prabakhars who only kowtowed to the short-term demands of wall street. Cutts, Ben Gomes and similar-minded do-gooders have all neatly been benched a long time ago.
Yeah when I was there (2011-2021) you could just see the positioning from "slightly hypocritical, probably naive, but overall in favour of the user and classic 1990s Internet principles" to... what it is now... shifting in a slow inevitable and painful wave. The last 5 years I was there especially.