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Topic: How long until you have to have a Google account to use Chrome?

dreamworks started this discussion 13 years ago #32,521

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Syntax joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 59 minutes later[^] [v] #454,013

No clue but the account is free so who cares?

And if I were a biz manager at Google I wood slowly force people using Youtube in2 having a Google account.
Wood drive Microshit mad as fuck.

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Meta joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 12 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #454,016

@OP
A year.

Kinda funny to think Microsoft got slapped with an antitrust lawsuit over including IE for free in Windows.

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #454,017

@previous (Meta)
> including IE for free in Windows.
Hummmmmm I thought it was cause they included IE yet had no other browser option loaded?

I am not current with those Eu lawsuits.

TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 57 seconds later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #454,018

@previous (Syntax)
It was. It being free had nothing to do with it.

Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 29 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #454,019

Upgrade to Netscape Navigator. Thanks.

Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,021

You mean to tell you me you haven't switched back to Firefox yet? Google is much to invasive in comparison.

Anonymous G joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 34 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,025

@454,013 (Syntax)
Doesn't Google spy on you?

Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 5 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,027

@454,013 (Syntax)
A youtube account is a google account. Who are we kidding?

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,034

@454,025 (G)
Consider this.
Wayyyy back early on I ended up with Google stock which was sorta given 2me in lieu of payment for a very small project. Odd thing is I was making my regular Qualcomm wage so I never understood that stock but hey it was paper. On n off I have bought Google but lost control of it and later got it back. Harvard Med had it for a couple of years.

So Google already no's my home address and more which is cool with me given how much that stock has skyrocketed in value.

@previous (H)
Of course it is owned by Google. Its just that Google C's the Billion accounts on Facebook and wants some of that kind of action ergo Google+

dreamworks (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 19 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,038

@previous (Syntax)
There arent any YouTube accounts, there havent been tot years

Syntax replied with this 13 years ago, 20 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,042

@previous (dreamworks)
I was under the impression that although anyone can upload a video file to Youtube, there is a time limit unless you have a Google account?

TheOwl !xi8/JKFwzo joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 3 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,060

@previous (Syntax)

There is only a global Google account now and they all tie together to your g+

Meta replied with this 13 years ago, 29 minutes later, 10 hours after the original post[^] [v] #454,061

@454,017 (Syntax)
@454,018 (TTEH !JXsxEkDBLs)
While the IE thing wasn't the only reason for the antitrust lawsuit, it was a major part.

The last three Android devices I've bought have only come with the default Android browser (it used to be called just "Browser" now it's mobile Chrome, though some manufacturers put their own custom browser in as well), and iOS devices only come with Safari preinstalled, so do Macs.

Google is an interesting beast. They're far more sinister than Micro$oft ever is or was, yet they have evaded almost all negative government attention. No one complains that a Chromebook literally only runs Chrome as a browser and is more integrated with Google services than Windows is with MS services. Maybe because Android and Chrome are (more or less) open-source and free? The Google business model of giving top-quality stuff away and making money only on ads is beautiful. They will own computing in this decade, and possibly the next too.

I just can't believe that web browsers used to be software you had to actually buy.

Really, though, Apple, Google, and Microsoft should not be forced to offer competing browsers on their devices.

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