Google Chrome Bastards

Bluefoam

They finally got me... It was an innocuous update of Real Player that did it.

I'm usually very careful about Real updates as they have a habit of infecting your PC with all sorts of Mal-ware. But this time they managed to slip a copy of Google Chrome onto my work PC without me noticing.

This makes me very angry, not just with Real, but with Google. I choose not to install your software, not only that, but I have to avoid installing it on a regular basis & you still manage to infect my computer with it...

Well Google...

**** YOU!!!

johnmcdnl

I quite like google chrome

angel01

I installed Chrome and I love it. Much better and faster than any other browser. I have uninstalled firefox and I think Chrome beats it hands down

Bluefoam

angel01 wrote: »

I installed Chrome and I love it. Much better and faster than any other browser. I have uninstalled firefox and I think Chrome beats it hands down

I'm not debating the merits of one browser over another. I'm just really astonished and pissed off at the lengths they will go to to install software maliciously on my hardware. I have a choice & I choose not to install Chrome.

Bluefoam

Holy ****!!!

I just clicked a link from an email & it opened in Chrome. I just uninstalled this **** 30 minutes ago...

ED E

Why in the f'ck are you using real player? You should be avoiding it not chrome!

And Yahoo are way worse for bundling **** than google.

JDxtra

Real Player?? What is this, 1998?

MarkR

Did it come with your netscape navigator download?

5uspect

Real player still exists? I thought even RTE had dropped that monstrosity?

While I'm still a Firefox user, Chrome is excellent. Bad form on the stealth install tho.

old_aussie

Yeah, google is so desperate that they will try anything to sneak one past you. Bastards

The option should be for the user to tick the install google chrome /google toolbar box, NOT have it ticked for you.

5uspect

Anyway just reset your default browser by going to the preferences of said browser.
Then uninstall Chrome.

roast

Its in Googles best interest to get their software bundled with as much other software as they can, obviously for marketing purposes. Once the agreement is signed, its up to the distributor (Real) as to how they package it with their software.

Its Realplayer you should be pissed at, if you must be pissed at something. I'm surprised you're even using that. Its a waste of space, poorly coded, resource heavy and badly optimized.

Fluffy88

Shame on you for not reading what each option was :P

Google are evil and plan to take over the world, heed my warning as the google troll bot will be here shortly and I will no longer be free ... run

5uspect

Fluffy88 wrote: »

Shame on you for not reading what each option was :P

Google are evil and plan to take over the world, heed my warning as the google troll bot will be here shortly and I will no longer be free ... run

I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Fluffy.

AntiRip

Tbh, Chrome and Firefox are tearing me apart. I don't know which one to choose but I do use firefox 90% of the time. I use Chrome for adverts.ie as firefox doesn't work when trying to place ads??

Chrome is brilliant when you want to open it quickly and find something.

I agree with the OP though, if you don't have or want Chrome it is bundled everywhere even on adware/spyware riddled software and you will be caught sometime with it. Just use Revo Uninstaller to uninstall it.

Isn't is better to have a good alternative browser like Chrome than having IE?

5uspect

FF4 was starting to annoy me with random freezing on both Win7 and OS X (Flash related I think) and I was considering jumping to Chrome. But a fresh install of Flash and FF5 seems to have fixed all that.

Also Flash is baked into Chrome which may be a bit of an argument against it.

Fluffy88

AntiRip wrote: »

Isn't is better to have a good alternative browser like Chrome than having IE?

IE9 isn't that bad. Having said that, my firefox has like 30 tabs that open everytime I open is for different things, so now when I am not working but just browsing I use IE9 and well I hate it, so I installed chrome last night :P

It's too late 5supect, I have outed google at a cost of my own life now people know the truth and will rebel!!

AntiRip

5uspect wrote: »

FF4 was starting to annoy me with random freezing on both Win7 and OS X (Flash related I think) and I was considering jumping to Chrome. But a fresh install of Flash and FF5 seems to have fixed all that.

Also Flash is baked into Chrome which may be a bit of an argument against it.

True, FF4 was getting annoying there for awhile with freezing up but FF5 seems to have fixed all that. I was surprised how FF5 came out so quickly though without the usual FF4.2,4.3,4.5 etc.

5uspect

AntiRip wrote: »

True, FF4 was getting annoying there for awhile with freezing up but FF5 seems to have fixed all that. I was surprised how FF5 came out so quickly though without the usual FF4.2,4.3,4.5 etc.

Yeah they're moving to 6 month release cycles. It's all the rage apparently.

danjo-xx

Decided to wait till bugs with FF4 were ironed out, so any bugs with FF5 considering its been rushed released.

BostonB

Bluefoam wrote: »

They finally got me... It was an innocuous update of Real Player that did it.

I'm usually very careful about Real updates as they have a habit of infecting your PC with all sorts of Mal-ware. But this time they managed to slip a copy of Google Chrome onto my work PC without me noticing.

This makes me very angry, not just with Real, but with Google. I choose not to install your software, not only that, but I have to avoid installing it on a regular basis & you still manage to infect my computer with it...

Well Google...

**** YOU!!!

In fairness its Real that did this. Its always done crap like that.

Get Real alternative if you must.

ArtSmart

5uspect wrote: »

Real player still exists? I thought even RTE had dropped that monstrosity?

While I'm still a Firefox user, Chrome is excellent. Bad form on the stealth install tho.

em, *cough* so what's a better option than real player? (i have this friend you see....)

johnmcdnl

ArtSmart wrote: »

em, *cough* so what's a better option than real player? (i have this friend you see....)

VLC player - 17-18mb download and it'll run just about any file you throw at it..

free open source and virtually never crashes... all you can ask for basically...

pretty simplistic to use as well

RolandIRL

AntiRip wrote: »

Tbh, Chrome and Firefox are tearing me apart. I don't know which one to choose but I do use firefox 90% of the time. I use Chrome for adverts.ie as firefox doesn't work when trying to place ads??

Adblock installed? follow these instructions. had the same problem myself.

Ruu_Old

JDxtra wrote: »

Real Player?? What is this, 1998?

Buffering please wait.....

FTGFOP

That they dropped the very handy 'close all tabs opened by this tab' option and got rid of the go button annoyed me since I moved to Chrome.

It would be nice if you could hit Alt and use the keyboard you can with Firefox.

BostonB

Real always annoyed me. If I need to access some RM files I used to use "Real alternative", these days I just don't bother with something that uses such an annoying format.

Adyx

If you like Chrome, but not the Google shít, just use Chromium. It may not be an "official" release but it works well enough on my netbook where FF has let me down.

Overheal

I use chrome.





If only to differentiate my normal browsing from my porn browsing, but yeah I use it.

Esel

Google get enough information from my searches without me giving them my entire browsing history via Chrome. So, Chrome? No thanks.

abelard

AntiRip wrote: »

Tbh, Chrome and Firefox are tearing me apart.

:pac:

Jagera

Chrome is a better browser, but on Linux I get updates for it about every 2 weeks, and its a full 15mb download. (well, its Chromium, not Chrome)

I'm glad they put the private browsing, called Incognito, in from the start, so my Mrs doesn't know if I have been... uhm.. looking for birthday presents for her every week.

From Firefox help.. (Chrome gives no reasons for using it on their help)

For example, if you share a computer with someone and have been shopping for their birthday present.

kravicecreama

Ruu wrote: »

Buffering please wait.....

Classsic.....

Although thats prob cause it still downloading the y2k patch

Dude111

old_aussie wrote:

Yeah, google is so desperate that they will try anything to sneak one past you. Bastards

Indeed they will.....

Chrome was made to spy on ppl and keep track of them.... THEY WILL DO ANYTHING THEY CAN TO GET IT ON YOUR COMPUTER!!

ArtSmart wrote:

em, *cough* so what's a better option than real player? (i have this friend you see....)

Realplayer is fine up until v8!

I have Version 8 and i love it.... (Everything after 8 sucks pond water)


www.versiondownload.com/download/real-player/8/

Take a look @ 8 and let me know how you like it....it is beautiful compared to the newer pieces of garbage

chin_grin

Chrome? Pfffffffft. Get some Iron in t'ya.

http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php