said by antwanp:Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera Browser... They all have ToS agreements in their licenses.
No, they don't.
said by antwanp:If you're so concerned about IP (you can't be a be intellectual property producer if you're using your browser for everything),
That's probably news to millions of bloggers, reviewers, and writers everywhere!
said by antwanp:then don't use an Internet browser for essential work.
I can see the Jerry Seinfeld ad now, "Microsoft Internet Explorer! For everything except for essential work!"
said by antwanp:If you need to blog, there's free native Mac and Windows software, if you need to FTP, the same. The list goes on and on. The firm I work for has one of the largest IP portfolios in the nation, all of our work is done on custom software. The only thing web-browsers are used for are.... for WEB browsing.
Hardly.
said by antwanp:I use Google because I feel it's a better search engine. I use GMail Domains for my custom domain e-mail (which works perfectly with my iPod touch, BlackBerry Pearl (work) and T-Mobile Shadow (Windows Mobile).
I do too, for similar reasons.
said by antwanp:Honestly reading this site over the past 9 years or so, I have never run into as many privacy nerds! (Not everyone, just a select few). Get over the fact that the Internet is increasingly more and more personal. Make the net work for you!
Not that there is anything wrong with privacy nerds -- they do God's work in holding back companies that would run roughshod over all of us if it wasn't for them. Privacy nerds give us choices.
I'm a heavy Google user, and I've actually unblocked their ads. They are, so far, a trustworthy partner in my use of the Internet. But even so, I always had some semblance of control over what what data they saw and what they did with it.
The Google Chrome "TOS" gave me pause because, as I said, it's unusual to have a TOS for a web browser or a piece of software. I'd simply never heard of such a thing unless it was a client to a very specific service (not the entire web). Secondly, after reading it, it felt like I may not have the same level of control over my privacy if I chose to use it.
Google has, today, very quickly answered that concern in a positive way, which is more consistent to the other Google practices I've seen.
It just wasn't an appropriate legal vehicle for a browser.