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September 03 2008

16:07

Reading Google Chrome's Fine Print

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I seem to recall that the verbiage about granting them license to distribute anything you upload is the exact same as YouTube's Terms of Service, which is the main reason I don't like to put my videos on YouTube.

I would love to see Google strike this wording from ALL of their EULAs. But it's especially egregious in the EULA for their open source web browser.

Much ink and many electrons are being spilled over Google's Chrome browser (discussed here twice in recent days): from deep backgrounders to performance benchmarks to its vulnerability to a carpet-bombing flaw. The latest angle to be explored is Chrome's end-user license agreement. It does not look consumer-friendly. "By submitting, posting or displaying the content you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute any content which you submit, post or display on or through, the services. This license is for the sole purpose of enabling Google to display, distribute and promote the services and may be revoked for certain services as defined in the additional terms of those services."