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UnChrome removes the unique ID from Google Chrome
by Lee Mathews Dec 16th 2008 at 12:00PM
If you'd prefer to run Google's version of the browser but are still concerned about your privacy, you can also download and run UnChrome. It's a free application that checks to see if you've got Chrome installed and then replaces the unique ID assigned to you with a null value.
After you run it, there is a single pop-up advertisement for another of the developer's applications. Since UnChrome-ing is a one-time thing, it's only a minor annoyance.
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Joe B. said 12:32PM on 12-16-2008
Even though the point of this post is based around privacy shortcomings, something that bloggers get really wound up about while using terms like "evil" and "they suck," since it is about a Google product you will never see such references for fear of getting flamed by the "kewl kids" (aka Google fanboys).
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ainstushar said 1:11PM on 12-16-2008
I don't get a couple of things:
1. Why is it ad-based? I could just call it an adware.
2. Why is it closed-source? I don't know what the heck that program is doing to my system. Who knows it might even be adding its own cookies or telling it to send data to their website... It seems a little fishy.
3. Though I like the idea behind having an alternative, Srware Iron does a lot more than that (such as it has dns pre-fetching and the magic-intellisense-like-address bar disabled). There have also been reports of Srware Iron giving you a better performance than Google Chrome (I am not sure...).
So as of right now, I am fine with Srware Iron.
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Jon said 2:13PM on 12-16-2008
Um i just Dl'd it .. but i am worried when a pop up comes up and is Spelled wrong " Please clode Chrome and restart it " .. i think you meant close ..
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Jash Sayani said 3:31PM on 12-16-2008
What !! They have Unique IDs with each Chrome installation !! So they can track down user activity !!!
I didn't know that !!!
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harmx said 3:33PM on 12-16-2008
Better off using the open source "Chrome Privacy Guard"
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3mfk5x
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