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Google Chrome Spinoff 'Iron' For Privacy Fanatics

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the why-open-source-is-awesome dept.

Sonnet_XVIII writes "According to DownloadSquad, A German company SRWare has developed a Google Chrome Spin off called Iron aimed at people who are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data."

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  1. Re:Since when by Bryansix · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Somebody confused their Television terms with their Technical terms.

  2. Removing Unique User ID by gurps_npc · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That alone makes it far superior to Chrome.

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  3. Re:Fanatical by MrNaz · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm increasingly starting to think that Slashdot editors are being underhandedly paid by Google to subtly ridicule anti-Google articles or sentiments. The wording of this summary makes it pretty blatantly obvious that the editor wants to make people who are suspicious of Google appear "fanatical", implying all the baggage that that word carries with it these days.

    How is it fanatical to not want to send your data to a private corporation? Would it be fanatical if that corporation was Microsoft, Sony or Universal Studios?

    I clear my cookies regularly. What Slashdot calls fanatical I call routine. So I guess that makes me a fanatic.

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  4. Re:Fanatical by redJag · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Fanatical people don't think of themselves as fanatical. Only the people that label them fanatical do..

  5. Re:Fanatical by Sancho · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A reasonable person, or the average person? I don't think that the average person is reasonable.

    The average person cares about having the newest car, the newest TV, a house they can't afford, etc. They want to keep up with the Joneses. They measure their own worth as relative to other people's possessions. Their own happiness depends upon being "better" than other people. That's not reasonable. That's why the American economy is in the mess that it's in. We're a society where the goal is to attain money any way you can. If you don't, you're a failure.

    Reasonable? My ass.

  6. Re:Fanatical by RabidMonkey · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I won't pick points, but I don't think it's fair to roll 50% of the population into one bucket and assume things about them, right or wrong.

    I'm sure you've never, in your entire life, done anything unreasonable, like wanting something because it looked cool, or sounded cool, or because you wanted to be the first kid on the block to have it, or because all of your friends had one.

    All general statements are false.

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  7. Re:IRC log from Iron by bmcage · · Score: 5, Insightful

    link please! I can make up your statement in 1..2..3, why would I believe this?