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rcjordan

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Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« on: December 14, 2010, 06:03:42 PM »
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2010, 07:42:08 PM »
Is that the guy who used to work for Google?

Why yes it is as a matter of fact - http://searchengineland.com/googler-quits-to-build-browser-to-block-google-tracking-58672
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2010, 07:49:27 PM »
I'm running it today. 2 site I normally read seem faster.  I also like the extension's sparse/utilitarian UI.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2010, 07:55:54 PM »
So, this totally neuters Chrome from home base? I can't saddle up except for SRWare Iron and it's a bit crashy.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2010, 08:10:29 PM »
>this totally neuters Chrome from home base

As a paranoid, I can't say 'totally' but -yeah- it's showing 3 cookies blocked on a G search of Greenville SC.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #5 on: December 15, 2010, 02:08:09 AM »
Quote from: Drastic on December 14, 2010, 07:55:54 PM
So, this totally neuters Chrome from home base? I can't saddle up except for SRWare Iron and it's a bit crashy.

SRware Iron is crashy, or Disconnect? SRware Iron is challenging Opera 11 now to be my primary browser. I haven't found it to be very crashy at all.

I think I may have too many overlapping Disconnect-esque extensions now. I may have to start pruning them pretty soon.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #6 on: December 15, 2010, 02:25:32 AM »
I've been avoiding Chrome simply because I knew it would probably phone home.  Now I'm actually keen on trying it.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #7 on: December 15, 2010, 02:37:31 AM »
Quote from: grnidone on December 15, 2010, 02:25:32 AM
I've been avoiding Chrome simply because I knew it would probably phone home.  Now I'm actually keen on trying it.

Same here.  Still using Opera and not interested in Chrome.  But I would like extensions that will do this stuff for next version of Opera.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #8 on: December 15, 2010, 04:16:36 AM »
Extensions on Opera 11 are really clunky. They just don't work the same way they might on Firefox or Chrome. I think you may have to wait a while before they catch up. It feels a bit like a kludge for many Opera extensions so far.

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Try SRware Iron. It's already decoupled from the mothership.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #9 on: December 15, 2010, 09:39:54 AM »
read rsnakes post on safe browsing http://ha.ckers.org/blog/20090824/google-safe-browsing-and-chrome-privacy-leak/ personally I use Iron never found it crashy not sure what plugins your running Drastic but when they all call home some way

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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #10 on: December 15, 2010, 12:59:00 PM »
>>SRware Iron

Trying it. Mac version. So far so good. I'll give it a test.  Not sure it will replace Opera but it's early days.  I think I already like it better than Safari.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #11 on: December 15, 2010, 02:28:43 PM »
>they all call home some way

That's what I figure. There has to be some catch, some incentive, buried in the developer's final intent.  Altruism just doesn't cut it.
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Re: Chrome ext: Disconnect. Disable tracking. Depersonalize search.
« Reply #12 on: December 15, 2010, 06:36:09 PM »
I don't use it much, just one of my winders that stays open with a few commonly used tabs. Come to think of it, it mainly crashes when my connection flakes out. When I was having router troubles, I couldn't keep the damn thing running. It crashed the other day when the power was out for a minute. (No UPS on the main host router.)

So, probably just related to losing connection, which normally isn't a problem.
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