[Gllug] Introducing the Google Chrome OS

[Isabell Long]

On 09/07/2009, Ryan Cartwright <r.cartwright at equitasit.co.uk> wrote:
> 2009/7/9 Joel Bernstein <joel at fysh.org>:
>>
>> On 8 Jul 2009, at 17:38, Isabell Long wrote:
>>
>>> That does look interesting.  If it's fast enough it'll be fine, but
>>> what concerns me is that it would be designed and thus monitored by
>>> Google, which isn't always a good thing as they monitor  enough as it
>>> is (says she who has a googlemail email address and uses google as her
>>> search engine).
>>
>> How exactly do you envisage that a Linux distro provided by Google
>> would be monitored by them?
>
> At a guess I'd say it's the same as them 'monitoring' your use of a
> browser or an e-mail account provided by them. Particularly as Chrome
> OS will pretty much be just a browser on a windowing system.
> Essentially that's tracking your usage to provide targeted
> advertising. Whether or not you consider that "monitoring" will vary.

That's what I was thinking when I said monitor, yes.


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