Comments on: Beware Google Browser’s License Agreement

By: hannah james

hannah james — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:43:19 +0000

hi jeremy, thankyou for that usefull peice of information , i also found your article on yahoo suspension very interesting, as i have had an account suspended without any notifications, and ive contacted the customer care team , and the yahoo answers team, who have told me i was in violation on yahoo answers,so i created a new account, and i done some research on the answers boards, and it only takes two people to report your answers or questions for you to get a violation notice(wethere your material was a violation or not) and i had my account terminated just because some people decided to gang up on users that were progressing through the levels. yahoo are useless when it comes to helping people, and the fact that they can take away an account at the drop of a hat is disgusting, as i too like your self had lots of important emails in my account, so i stick with hotmail now, and i will no longer be using yahoos services.and to that archibald guy, you should be grateful for people like jeremy,theres always a downside to most things on the internet, and if you arent worried about your own safety and privacy, then more fool you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 03:07:41 +0000

Thanks for the service you provided by being one of the industry watchers that keep tabs on corporations like Google. I certainly would no have had the drive to go through this draconian piece of EULA to find it out.

And for user Archibald (I will assume his comment was out of plain dumbness, and not from any malicious ploy to muddle waters on this chrystal clear situation): Google changed the EULA EXACTLY because people like Jeremy called it out, not because someone at Google reviewed it and found it to go against its “do no evil rule”. Corporations are giant blind beasts, and need to be steered by the users in order not to fall on top of our rights.

By: Pronema

Pronema — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:01:34 +0000

Thanks for the notice. I like Google but this is typical of their policies.

By: Paul Lanken

Paul Lanken — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:50:17 +0000

Thank you for actualyl reading the license carefully and letting the rest of us sheep know we are being fleeced. I did not see that because, like many stupid Orwell-trained sheep, I just click “agree”. Like a moron. Anyways .. thank you for the heads up.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:17:24 +0000

Please don’t waste my time leaving baseless insulting comments on my site. If you have a point to make, make it.

By: Archibald

Archibald — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:24:55 +0000

Wow, you really enjoy blowing shit out of proportion and blatantly mis-reading things, don’t you?

Get a life, you sad, sad, alarmist man.