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Flock Switches To Chromium For New Beta
An anonymous reader writes "Flock, the social networking browser, has moved from Firefox open source code to Chromium in its latest beta. The new Flock is essentially a combination of Chrome and TweetDeck, as you can sign in to Twitter and Facebook accounts and look at a single feed that incorporates updates from both. Currently, the beta is only available on Windows, but a Mac version is slated for later this year."
The FUD is anyone would provide indemnification, the fear it is spreading is clearly that google must not think they have a pantent free video format if they won't do that.
MPEG-LA not providing indemnification is a clear example that this is normal practice for this sort of thing.
But as we already know your just trolling, note your trollish name.
Also - no proper Adblock in Chrome is a dealbreaker for me. Element hiding is insufficient.
As far as I'm concerned, that one item is tantamount to Google actively endorsing fraud. You can bet the ONLY reason why want to do that is so they can bill people for ads they KNOW they never showed. Otherwise, the only logical solution is to implement "Ad Block". Since they are purposely avoiding a real solution which saves bandwidth, cpu, memory, and false billing, the only plausible explanation is a willing intent to commit fraud on a massive scale.
Billing someone for a service which they knowingly did not provide is nothing but fraud. And yet, that's EXACTLY what Google is pushing here; and pushing hard.