GreaseMetal for Google Chrome

For those of you who like (or in my case; LOVE) Google Chrome but miss GreaseMonkey and being able to see bbcode here:

http://asiajin.com/blog/2008/09/10/greasemetal-google-chrome-greasemonkey/

It's quite beyond me why someone would love having his every move in the internet watched and recorded, I admit it...

Heres an interesting blog with some good reasoned debate and after reading i think i will avoid it to

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/google-chrome-communication/

Then it would be better if you never connected to the internet. Do you really think your ISP doesn't keep info on your browsing habits? Do you really think that the US Government doesn't keep track? Never heard of Carnivore, Echelon or DCS1000?

I mean really, OMG Google is going to know that I go to SL forums and Washington Post and NYTimes. The end of the world must be near and the sky is falling!

I am much more worried about both myself and my freinds actually having jobs next year. So many things to worry about that are much more important even if you are the type to worry. Like I really care if someone knows where I go on the internet. pffft.

So the questions is; Where is it you go that you are so worried that someone may find out? Umpteen jillion databases already have my social security number, credit card numbers and all kinds of other personal data. Every phone call I make is recorded and analyzed for keywords somewhere and since I only use a cell phone, they also know within a couple of blocks where I am. If you use a shoppers card to save money then each of those stores have thier own databases.

For exactly the same reasons I refuse to participate in any shoppers card programs.

It's not that I do something I don't want people to know about or buy stuff I am ashamed about. It is just not their RIGHT to collect information about my every move without my consent. To me, this feels the same as people peeking into your windows and taking pictures of your bedroom and your underwear.

But hey, go ahead and give them all you want, to each his own. Can we shoot you as the culprit when they finally take over the world though?

I was thinking more like this guy suggested below about the amount of data it sucks down the pipe as for privacy concerns i agree with you Privacy on the internet? Don’t use the Internet. Someone is collecting data somewhere on you one way or another

It's a bit like sex. There's the modest kind, every now and then, y'know. And then there's the girls that are waaayyyy too easy.

Well as I said then, Anyone that thinks they have any privacy at all while they are browsing is delusional.

LOL i love that analogy

Agreed But i do think the data sucked down is a cause for concern that Google haven't seemed to address and i say that because while i was working for Adobe we had a guy send in a bill for his mobile data as he wasn't aware how much data the adobe apps suck down the pipe in the background either and when he got his mobile data bill for his laptop he was fuming because the Adobe apps had stung him good and proper

You don't get my point. I never stated I had a chance of real privacy. I know that. I am not dense. But there's some logs that are kept by providers and such... and there's the data-sucking megalith that collects data for god knows whatever reasons.

To each his own, sure. But don't tell me I'm delusional just because I don't want to roll over and be one of the easy ones.

Not picking on you Novis and sorry if it came off that way.But I don't think you or other people realise that a decision to not use Chrome because Google will collect the data has an impact on Google collecting that very same data. Google is still collecting the data on your browsing habits, no matter what browser you are using or what country you live in. The amount of information flowing into not only Google's, but also Microsoft's and Yahoo's Data Collection Centers is mind boggling. They are in to position and have the expertise to scrape the data better then even the FBI's DSC1000 program.

Google already has partial ownership of one trans-pacific fibre optic cable but is also laying their own. Google's new GeoSat-1 is now the highest resolution non-NSA satellite, boasting 1/2 meter resolution. It isn't a matter of Google eventually taking over the world, Google already HAS taken over the world, Microsoft just doesn't know it yet.

But they were able to do this because they helped change the world. I went from engineering to purchasing at my company. The way everyone always did purchasing was to get out their personal phone book and call so & so for tools, and some other company for office supplies etc. The first thing I did was throw that book away and hit Google. For non structural steel purchases, I have been saving the company over $200K per year as opposed to my predecessors. That is not bad for a company that does about $4 mil a year and most of that is in steel.