Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#1

Post by tea-flow » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 6:56 AM UTC

I for one am not too happy about this. What do you think HN?

Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page
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Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#2

Post by politician » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 8:13 AM UTC

Also annoying: the "you're missing out! -- sign in" appeal to associate your browser with .. what exactly? On Ubunutu, it's suggesting that I sign in to Chromium.

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#3

Post by yozmsn » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 8:13 AM UTC

This isn't quite news, Chrome has been doing stuff like this all the time. When the new nexus came out they had a link there...

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#4

Post by zobzu » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 8:17 AM UTC

politician wrote: post #2

Also annoying: the "you're missing out! -- sign in" appeal to associate your browser with .. what exactly? On Ubunutu, it's suggesting that I sign in to Chromium.

When you use a non-Chrome browser and use Google websites you get the "for a faster web" in all variations with a chrome download button.

Relatively annoying over time ;-)

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#5

Post by firsttimecaller » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

politician wrote: post #2

Also annoying: the "you're missing out! -- sign in" appeal to associate your browser with .. what exactly? On Ubunutu, it's suggesting that I sign in to Chromium.

Synced autocomplete data is pretty sweet.

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#6

Post by samuel1604 » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 9:04 AM UTC

chrome is a free browser last time i checked it's fair if they advertise some products of them.

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#7

Post by jtokoph » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 9:23 AM UTC

You're free to use a different homepage or override the dashboard (new tab) page.

http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/override.html

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#8

Post by j_col » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 9:29 AM UTC

If they are using it to advertise to you, then it isn't "free" in my book.

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#9

Post by rplnt » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 9:48 AM UTC

samuel1604 wrote: post #6

chrome is a free browser last time i checked it's fair if they advertise some products of them.

Because the billions they make from search aren't enough. Of course they are free to do whatever they want, and you are even allowed to hide those ads (or use open source version), but I think there's a limit where it will get too much.

Re: Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page

#10

Post by petercooper » Thu, Feb 14, 2013, 9:49 AM UTC

j_col wrote: post #8

If they are using it to advertise to you, then it isn't "free" in my book.

Though by that measure, HN isn't "free."