New Chrome Beta Adds Privacy Controls, Translation Option

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday March 2, 2010 @02:39AM from the on-the-campaign-trail dept.

billandad writes "Anyone would think the timing was deliberate; just as Microsoft is forced into giving users the option to switch from IE via the browser ballot screen, so Google introduces a new Chrome beta with enhanced privacy features to chisel away at Microsoft's market share. '... you can control how browser cookies, images, JavaScript, plug-ins, and pop-ups are handled on a site-by-site basis. For example, you can set up cookie rules to allow cookies specifically only for sites that you trust, and block cookies from untrusted sites.' The new beta also adds language detection, and will prompt the user to translate a page if it's written in a foreign tongue."

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Re:Google? Privacy? by lordandmaker · 2010-03-02 03:01 · Score: 1, Troll

I've gotta say, that was my first reaction. I don't see why Google would provide better genuine security provisions, they seem to make a fair bit of money out of people not having privacy.
Google's reputation for privacy is fast approaching Microsoft's for business ethics.