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You sound like one of those people that latch on to those shoot from the hip blog posts without doing any analysis of the issue yourself or visiting a site that

You sound like one of those people that latch on to those shoot from the hip blog posts without doing any analysis of the issue yourself or visiting a site that does it for you. That binary blob was inactive and had to be proactively turned on in the settings screen. So was it really an issue? No, but the vocal minority of anti-Google people made sure to spoon feed the run of the mill and non tech savvy media outlets about it. As for turning off all phishing and malware alerts - why would you? Google gave you a warning about a site. If you would like to ignore it then click the link below and continue onto the site. If you would like to use a browser that doesn't care then go ahead and switch.

McGlockenshire 11y ago
> That binary blob was inactive and had to be proactively turned on in the settings screen. So was it really an issue? No, but ... Just to be clear about a thing, there was an issue. The automatic download of the extension occurred in Chromium, the FLOSS software around which Chrome is built. Chromium is shipped in a multitude of linux distributions, including Debian. Debian takes their FLOSS standards very seriously. The automatic downloading of a binary blob by Chromium was a FLOSS ethics issue. Google went on to address the issue by not just removing the automatic download, but ensuring that the remaining hooks to enable the audio search feature were removed. That's the entirety of the actual, real controversy. The rest is made up assumptions by people that fail to understand Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- bitmapbrother 11y ago
  The "actual, real controversy" wasn't the story, though. It was the forced fed made up controversy that was the real story.
joesmo 11y ago
Thanks for attacking my character. Right, of course having a mysterious unidentified binary blob in what's supposed to be free software isn't really an issue. What a load of shit. Enough said. As for malware alerts, I expect them to be accurate, otherwise they're not useful at all. I do not expect them to be used for censorship purposes, as clearly is the case here. Now it's up to me to figure out which sites might be potentially negative. That makes Chrome a shitty browser and I think switching seems to be the only option at this time. There are other browsers that don't do this, so comparatively, they are superior, because they do not ask me to turn off all the malware alerts just to get to the sites I want without being censored.
- bitmapbrother 11y ago
  Did you know there are Linux distributions with binary blobs in them? OMG what are binary blobs doing in a Linux Distro? As for your beefs with Chrome preventing you from visiting torrent sites, the issue has been resolved. Try not to overreact next time and not perpetuate the BS these spoon fed blog sites are feeding you.

McGlockenshire 11y ago

> That binary blob was inactive and had to be proactively turned on in the settings screen. So was it really an issue? No, but ... Just to be clear about a thing, there was an issue. The automatic download of the extension occurred in Chromium, the FLOSS software around which Chrome is built. Chromium is shipped in a multitude of linux distributions, including Debian. Debian takes their FLOSS standards very seriously. The automatic downloading of a binary blob by Chromium was a FLOSS ethics issue. Google went on to address the issue by not just removing the automatic download, but ensuring that the remaining hooks to enable the audio search feature were removed. That's the entirety of the actual, real controversy. The rest is made up assumptions by people that fail to understand Hanlon's Razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

bitmapbrother 11y ago
The "actual, real controversy" wasn't the story, though. It was the forced fed made up controversy that was the real story.

joesmo 11y ago

Thanks for attacking my character. Right, of course having a mysterious unidentified binary blob in what's supposed to be free software isn't really an issue. What a load of shit. Enough said. As for malware alerts, I expect them to be accurate, otherwise they're not useful at all. I do not expect them to be used for censorship purposes, as clearly is the case here. Now it's up to me to figure out which sites might be potentially negative. That makes Chrome a shitty browser and I think switching seems to be the only option at this time. There are other browsers that don't do this, so comparatively, they are superior, because they do not ask me to turn off all the malware alerts just to get to the sites I want without being censored.

bitmapbrother 11y ago
Did you know there are Linux distributions with binary blobs in them? OMG what are binary blobs doing in a Linux Distro? As for your beefs with Chrome preventing you from visiting torrent sites, the issue has been resolved. Try not to overreact next time and not perpetuate the BS these spoon fed blog sites are feeding you.