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Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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Re: Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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The goal of my current startup is: finally a toolbar you actually want to use. I'm eliminating the need for installation, the toolbar only comes up when you tell it to, it's customizable, and it's actually quite useful. You pick the things you want; google, amazon, urbandictionary, whatever.

I realize this post is little else than self promotion, but I've been working 60 hrs a week on it and rather enjoy hearing that people are still suffering from toolbar hell. Beta in 2 weeks.

Re: Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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reminds me of uninstalling all the toolbars whenever I get home... You won't believe whenever I see my parents home desktop, half of the browser is taken up by these toolbars..strangely people don't even care about getting rid of them (not to mention dont know what to do with them as well)

Re: Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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post #9

To me it's funny that you worry about toolbars that collect your browsing information and ignore the extent in which Chrome does the same. It's true Google has their tracking scripts on most of the web pages today but what Chrome does in the background seems to be one dimension more. The only difference from the toolbars is that you're not aware of it as the browser "is faster than other ones."

but what Chrome does in the background seems to be one dimension more. How would you know that?

Try to analyze the traffic. See if something goes to Google even for the sites that don't already have Google's tracking scripts on them.

I know, "it's all for convenience of user."

Re: Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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The goal of my current startup is: finally a toolbar you actually want to use. I'm eliminating the need for installation, the toolbar only comes up when you tell it to, it's customizable, and it's actually quite useful. You pick the things you want; google, amazon, urbandictionary, whatever. I realize this post is little else than self promotion, but I've been working 60 hrs a week on it and rather enjoy hearing that…

Pretty far off topic, but: How on earth can you eliminate the need for installation? Do browsers have some new ability these days to automatically run remote code?

Re: Ask HN: When will the toolbar madness end?

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post #14

The goal of my current startup is: finally a toolbar you actually want to use. I'm eliminating the need for installation, the toolbar only comes up when you tell it to, it's customizable, and it's actually quite useful. You pick the things you want; google, amazon, urbandictionary, whatever. I realize this post is little else than self promotion, but I've been working 60 hrs a week on it and rather enjoy hearing that…

Pretty far off topic, but: How on earth can you eliminate the need for installation? Do browsers have some new ability these days to automatically run remote code?

Your question is spot on.

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