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<blockquote data-quote="vansmith" data-source="post: 1242555" data-attributes="member: 71075"><p>And Apple offers ads through Safari, Mozilla offers ads through Firefox and Opera offers ads through Opera. It's not the browser that serves them - it's the webpage. A browser isn't intelligent - it simply does what the web designer wants it to do. If I embedded an ad in this post, it would show up on all three browsers.</p><p></p><p>And you're conflating earnings with evidence of tracking. First off, let's remember that my iOS example was a hypothetical argument - I'm not actually making it. I put it out there though because, without evidence, I can claim it with as much validity as claiming that Google is tracking me through Chrome.</p><p></p><p>Again, I fail to see how this is obvious when there is no evidence to support it. Do you actually have any evidence that Chrome specifically tracks users or are you going to stick with conjecture and loose references to earnings reports that don't once mention Chrome and instead, note that income comes from advertising on Google websites (<a href="http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings.html" target="_blank">here</a>)? Where does anyone say that Chrome shapes the advertising on their webpages?</p><p></p><p>Do you actually have any recorded or tangible proof that Chrome is taking my browsing habits and using them to serve up ads on their websites? If not, why should I believe you when you state that Chrome is tracking me? What proof would you need other than the proof I've presented in the past which showed no abnormal http traffic when using Chrome? Do you have any evidence besides "it's bloody obvious" which in no real world situation, like criminal trials, would count as sufficient evidence for anything.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vansmith, post: 1242555, member: 71075"] And Apple offers ads through Safari, Mozilla offers ads through Firefox and Opera offers ads through Opera. It's not the browser that serves them - it's the webpage. A browser isn't intelligent - it simply does what the web designer wants it to do. If I embedded an ad in this post, it would show up on all three browsers. And you're conflating earnings with evidence of tracking. First off, let's remember that my iOS example was a hypothetical argument - I'm not actually making it. I put it out there though because, without evidence, I can claim it with as much validity as claiming that Google is tracking me through Chrome. Again, I fail to see how this is obvious when there is no evidence to support it. Do you actually have any evidence that Chrome specifically tracks users or are you going to stick with conjecture and loose references to earnings reports that don't once mention Chrome and instead, note that income comes from advertising on Google websites ([URL="http://investor.google.com/earnings/2010/Q4_google_earnings.html"]here[/URL])? Where does anyone say that Chrome shapes the advertising on their webpages? Do you actually have any recorded or tangible proof that Chrome is taking my browsing habits and using them to serve up ads on their websites? If not, why should I believe you when you state that Chrome is tracking me? What proof would you need other than the proof I've presented in the past which showed no abnormal http traffic when using Chrome? Do you have any evidence besides "it's bloody obvious" which in no real world situation, like criminal trials, would count as sufficient evidence for anything. [/QUOTE]
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