[sfk]

It is strange that up to now there have been virtually no comments about privacy issues in this thread. It is clear to me that for a company in the advertising business the prime reason to release a browser is to improve data mining.

If, say, an association of insurers generously releases a "free" browser, would people install it?

[spon]

From what I can tell, there's a way around this nonsense: use Chromium instead of chrome. It's licensed under the BSD license.

http://code.google.com/chromium/terms.html

On the other hand, two-dozen third party software packages are distributed with Chromium, and all are released under some license.