Why I won't be using Google Chrome either

[kespernorth]

Via Charles Stross, from the Google Chrome EULA:

11. Content licence from you

11.1 You retain copyright and any other rights that you already hold in Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying the content, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive licence to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any Content that you submit, post or display on or through the Services. This licence is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the Services and may be revoked for certain Services as defined in the Additional Terms of those Services.

Oh, hell no.

Comments

[crschmidt.livejournal.com]

You can always skip the EULA and go right to the download?

Maybe the EULA is actually part of the installer; I dunno. No windows here.

[day-the-elf.livejournal.com]

wait. What? Are they saying that anything we do via Chrome becomes google property?

[kespernorth.livejournal.com]

That's what it says. Google basically just cut and pasted the EULA from other Google services...

...Like Google Docs, so uh, don't use Google Docs.

However, they now say that they made a mistake and are changing the Chrome EULA. Probably not the Google Docs on though. :)

[luchog.livejournal.com]

Hope so. I was interested in it until I read that nonsense.

[luchog.livejournal.com]

Not as such. It remains your property, but Google is granted a perpetual, unlimited, and irrevocable license to use anything you publish via Chrome.

[lintilla.livejournal.com]

WHUT