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I'd just be happy to be able to use it at all at work. Our organisation blocks it because, apparently, 'it sends a lot of data back to Google.' I have no idea i
by saw-lau 10y ago
I'd just be happy to be able to use it at all at work. Our organisation blocks it because, apparently, 'it sends a lot of data back to Google.' I have no idea if this is true or not.
- Quenz 10y agoWhy would they change their reasoning with this new enterprise version?
- saw-lau 10y agoWell, they wouldn't, unfortunately. But I guess if having an enterprise version that doesn't auto-update means that more people are going to get to use it, then that's a Good Thing.
- dripton 10y agoIt's true, but you can turn that stuff off. You want to turn off things under Privacy like "Use a web service to help resolve navigation errors", "Use a prediction service to help complete searches and URLs typed in the address bar", "Automatically report details of possible security incidents to Google", "Use a web service to help resolve spelling errors", and "Automatically send usage statistics and crash reports to Google." And not login into Chrome. The problem is that even if you tell all your employees what to disable, some of them will probably not comply. So a truly paranoid IT team might want to make their own fork of Chromium with those features removed.
- lorenzhs 10y agoAre you sure those can't be configured via group policy? Maintaining a fork seems like an absurdly overcomplicated and expensive approach.
- FT_intern 10y agoIsn't that true for all browsers (and OSes)?
- CaptSpify 10y agoNot for Linux and Firefox afaik. At the very least, they are modifiable to not do that.