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Chrome Displaying Advertisements On Dashboard Page
I for one am not too happy about this. What do you think HN?
- politician 14y agoAlso annoying: the "you're missing out! -- sign in" appeal to associate your browser with .. what exactly? On Ubunutu, it's suggesting that I sign in to Chromium.
- zobzu 14y agoWhen you use a non-Chrome browser and use Google websites you get the "for a faster web" in all variations with a chrome download button. Relatively annoying over time ;-)
- gcp 14y agoIt's the sort of thing that backfires and is actively off-putting. At least for me.
- firsttimecaller 14y agoSynced autocomplete data is pretty sweet.
- yozmsn 14y agoThis isn't quite news, Chrome has been doing stuff like this all the time. When the new nexus came out they had a link there...
- samuel1604 14y agochrome is a free browser last time i checked it's fair if they advertise some products of them.
- rplnt 14y agoBecause the billions they make from search aren't enough. Of course they are free to do whatever they want, and you are even allowed to hide those ads (or use open source version), but I think there's a limit where it will get too much.
- jrogers65 14y agoIf it bundles in advertising then is it really free? Consider how much money is spent on ads - they clearly have an effect, and given the obscene amounts of money spent, probably not a small one. So what is the impact of advertising? We buy more things because someone has convinced us that we need them, become more likely to get into debt and save less as a result. I cannot consider this to be free in good conscience. I'm not the only one who sees it this way either - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/14/ban-advertising-in-public-spaces-thinktank http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/feb/14/ban-advertising-...
- jtokoph 14y agoYou're free to use a different homepage or override the dashboard (new tab) page. http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/override.html http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/override.html
- mmahemoff 14y agoAwesome New Tab Page is a sweet one, with a programmable widget system anyone can add to. (I guess Google will do something similar and official at some point.) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-new-tab-page/mgmiemnjjchgkmgbeljfocdjjnpjnmcg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/awesome-new-tab-pa...
- dnissley 14y agoI just use the "empty new tab page" extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page/dpjamkmjmigaoobjbekmfgabipmfilij?hl=en-US https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/empty-new-tab-page...
- j_col 14y agoIf they are using it to advertise to you, then it isn't "free" in my book.
- petercooper 14y agoThough by that measure, HN isn't "free."
- j_col 14y agoHN is a website. Chrome is a browser. Not sure I get the comparison?
- EwanToo 14y agoWhat's wrong with the comparison? Both are services (Chrome's a lot more than use an executable, does sync'd data, etc), that you don't exchange money with in return for functionality.
- j_col 14y agoA web browser allows access to all websites (broad reach). HN is just one website on the web (narrow reach). Pretty clear to me why this is a bad comparison, just interested to know why the OP thought otherwise.
- anglebracket 14y agoI don't see what reach has to do with making HN "free" and Chrome "not free" if they both use space in their interfaces to deliver advertisements. Arguably, Chrome would be more "free" since HN displays its advertisements more prominently than Chrome's and they masquerade as user-generated content. Is there more to your metric?
- j_col 14y agoI never claimed that HN was free. I simply said that comparing it to Chrome was invalid.
- ch0wn 14y agoThey did this before. One article from 2011: http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57331212-264/googles-new-ad-space-chrome/ http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-57331212-264/googles-new-a...
- azakai 14y agoYes, this is nothing new. Surprised people never saw it before in fact. Also surprised people didn't expect this. Like any company, Google ties its products together and promotes one on the other. As another example, some google websites will recommend using chrome.
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- shocks 14y ago26.0.1410.3 dev-m -- no ads. 26.0.1411.0 canary -- no ads. What version of Chrome is this?
- dkhenry 14y agoI have them in this version 25.0.1364.45 beta
- EwanToo 14y agoPeople use a free browser developed by a company driven by advertising revenue, and get shocked, shocked, at advertising being involved! In other news, alternatives exist and work very well if it bothers you.
- jschuur 14y agoWas that linked to Google's Chromebook site, or a third party manufacturer? A single link to a product being designed by Google, when the product in question (a Chromebook) uses the same product (Chrome) as it's primary interface is hardly 'ZOMG! Chrome is running the ads now!!!'. It's directly related to Chrome and Google is simply saying 'here's another way you can experience the browser you're already using that we came up with'.
- OGinparadise 14y agoA single link to a product being designed by Google, when the product in question (a Chromebook) uses the same product (Chrome) as it's primary interface is hardly 'ZOMG! Chrome is running the ads now!!!'. http://media.tumblr.com/6d048ed2fd812e7352e7b07a8c959e80/tumblr_inline_mi777tVLIP1qz4rgp.png http://media.tumblr.com/6d048ed2fd812e7352e7b07a8c959e80/tum... Look at it again and tell me how many "links" to Google services and products do you see?
- Geee 14y agoThose are Chrome apps. The ad is above the icons.
- OGinparadise 14y agoThose are Chrome apps. The ad is above the icons. I had the same ad on my Chrome 'new tab' screen. Yeah, but they are GOOGLE Apps for Chrome. Others have Chrome apps too, no?
- olegp 14y agoThis is part of the reason I made https://starthq.com https://starthq.com - a new tab replacement service.
- duiker101 14y agoI use speed dial 2. works like a charm. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpebmajhhopeonhlcgidhclcccjcik?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/speed-dial-2/jpfpe...
- olegp 14y agoI'm working on a similar extension that stores your settings on a server (see my other comment to this post) and was wondering: what are the main Spped Dial 2 features that you use?
- duiker101 14y agoThe homepage. With the links. Mostly that, in plain, no groups or nothing. Sometimes I like to fiddle with the background and some settings but 99% of my usage consists of that. I watched the statistics page once when I found it. I even disabled the sidebar because it was annoying. I really liked Opera and it remembers it a lot. If you can come up with something similar give me a shot I will gladly try it.
- OGinparadise 14y agoGoogle is desperate for revenue, their PE is 25+, Apple and MSFT have it 10 or so. Their stock will drop in half if growth isn't there. Every search page with commercial interest is already pay-to-play, some openly, others obvious enough for anyone. What's next for that 30% growth Larry wants? What other service is he going to ruin for short term profits? At their valuation it becomes harder and harder to beat the previous year's earnings. Google has done a lot of sleazy and illegal things for revenue so spare me the outrage
- esrauch 14y agoIllegal things?
- OGinparadise 14y agoYeah, it was all over WSJ a while back. Something to do with adwords and advertising for illegal drugs, hormones or something. Top execs knew but Google paid a fine and they escaped.
- beefsack 14y agoThis is why I use Chromium and not Chrome.
- WayneDB 14y agoGoogle's default new-tab page has always seemed "salesy" to me. I use Speed Dial 2 as my new-tab page, so I didn't even see this.