Google Chrome—Minus the Snooping | Linux Today

Google Chrome—Minus the Snooping

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 26, 2008

[ Thanks to Sakshi
Garg
for this link. ]

“As Downloadsquad is reporting, the Chromium source code for
Google’s Chrome open source browser has already been fashioned into
a new version of the browser: Iron. Apparently German company
SRWare developed its knock-off of Chrome for users who are
concerned about Google’s policies for collecting private
information–a constant Achilles heel for the company. SRWare’s
home page is in German, but the folks at the Incomplete News
Project have published a translation with details on what SRWare’s
version does.

“According to the Incomplete News Project, Iron veers away from
Chrome by deactivating features in these ways:

  • no alternative error messages, when having entered a wrong
    URL
  • no sending of collected data to Google, if Iron has
    crashed
  • no unwanted Google updater

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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