Date: Mon, 23 May 2011 21:12:45 +0200 From: Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> To: Evan Martin <evan@chromium.org> Cc: chromium@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Chromium on FreeBSD presentation Message-ID: <4DDAB1AD.6070502@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=MmJ2zZss8bFu7FAAJK89ndHjgww@mail.gmail.com> References: <BANLkTimpJS-BotPpSvhYF9kDqf3=FT4k7A@mail.gmail.com> <BANLkTi=MmJ2zZss8bFu7FAAJK89ndHjgww@mail.gmail.com>
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Op 23-05-2011 17:40, Evan Martin schreef: > On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM, René Ladan <r.c.ladan@gmail.com> wrote: >> I gave a presentation during BSDCan about Chromium, the sheets are >> available here: >> ftp://rene-ladan.nl/pub/chromium-bsdcan.pdf > > For what it's worth, we take privacy seriously and our bad reputation > is not deserved. > It seems like I upset you, which was not at all what I intended. I use Chromium as my day-to-day browser both at work and at home. > It is frustating to see you call out "spy code" in > the header of a slide. Too quickly chosen wording on my side. I think we can safely assume that the audience, which were mostly BSD developers and BSD affiliates, understands that the "spy" code is not related to that as found in malware. > Features you mention on that slide, like > geolocation, require the user to explicitly grant that information to > the site that requests it (geolocation uses an infobar, sync you must > first enable through the preferences, etc.). True. > The malware/phishing > blocking code goes to great effort to avoid sending information about > the URLs you're visiting. Features like that, where there is a > utility/privacy tradeoff, are clearly grouped together under a > "privacy" heading in the preferences. > > Here's more about privacy in Chrome: > http://www.google.com/intl/en/landing/chrome/google-chrome-privacy-whitepaper.pdf > > If you ever find any code that does something you find problematic > from a privacy standpoint, I would love to hear about it. > I have removed the problematic sheet from the presentation. René
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