Chrome EULA Reserves the Right To Filter Your Web

An anonymous reader writes "Recently, I decided to try out Google Chrome. With my usual mistrust of Google, I decided to carefully read the EULA before installing the software. I paused when I stumbled upon this section: '7.3 Google reserves the right (but shall have no obligation) to pre-screen, review, flag, filter, modify, refuse or remove any or all Content from any Service. For some of the Services, Google may provide tools to filter out explicit sexual content. These tools include the SafeSearch preference settings (see google.com/help/customize.html#safe). In addition, there are commercially available services and software to limit access to material that you may find objectionable.' Does this mean that Google reserves the right to filter my web browsing experience in Chrome (without my consent to boot)? Is this a carry-over from the EULAs of Google's other services (gmail, blogger etc), or is this something more significant? One would think that after the previous EULA affair with Chrome, Google would try to sound a little less draconian." Update: 04/05 21:14 GMT by T : Google's Gabriel Stricker alerted me to an informative followup: "We saw your Slashdot post and published the following clarification on the Google Chrome blog."

Comments

Without your consent?

[jlarocco]

If you're reading the EULA, seeing that google may filter pages you view, and then using Chrome anyway then that means you're consenting. Or you're just incredibly fucking dumb.

If you don't like it, use something else. There's not exactly a shortage of web browsers...

LOL you nerd

[desinc]

"With my usual mistrust of Google..."

This guy is obviously super-cool!

Re:!ahugedeal

[Hurricane78]

Then don't install binaries on your system! I could have not a single piece of non-self-compiled software on my system, if it weren't for those nVidia drivers (the only way to get recent 3D effects on Linux).

Oh, and you all are idiots if you think, Google "puts it in the license, just to be sure". I don't know who said it, but whenever someone tells you something like this, they are going to use it as early as often as they can. Google is an exception for not already doing it. But the time will come. And I dare everyone to lay down $100 in gold*, and say it won't happen ever!
Just wait until they notice a profit to be made.

(*Because the paper money equivalent will be worthless by then, even if it is in 5 years.)