Es weht ein neuer Wind bei Google ... und der ist frostig.

Anders kann ich mir die Vorgänge nicht erklären. Der Fokus liegt nun auf der eigentlichen Zielgruppe: Unternehmen. Als Werbetreibende und Enterprise-Kunden für Software und Services.

Google Glass, Google Plus, Chrome, just to name a few. Google Cloud Services waren schon immer so vermarktet - gerade im Vergleich mit Amazon.

Der Endverbraucher, der Suchmaschinennutzer, der Surfer, der Android-Nutzer war immer nur als Rohstoff interessant, der erstmal in ausreichender Masse gefördert und veredelt werden musste um damit dann das eigentliche Geschäft zu machen.

Vorteil: es schafft Raum für Neues. Oder Altes, das an den Rand gedrängt wurde. Eure Chance, Firefox, Lineage, F-Droid, Pluspora und Co!

uBlock und Privacy Badger: Google schränkt Werbeblocker in Chrome ein - Golem.de https://www.golem.de/news/ublock-und-privacy-badger-google-schraenkt-werbeblocker-in-chrome-ein-1906-141627.html

Tags: #Chrome #Google #Adblocker

via dandelion* client (Source)

Mailvelope Browser Plugin reaches 1.0.0!

This plugin lets you send/receive PGP-protected emails from just about any Webmail (like Gmail and so on).

Congratulations to Thomas Oberndörfer and Team! :-)

https://www.mailvelope.com

https://github.com/mailvelope/mailvelope/blob/master/Changelog.md

#pgp #gpg #mailvelope #firefox #chrome #encryption #privacy

Tabbed browsing as a band-aid over poor UI, and the Tabs Outliner Extension for Chrome*

I posted a long rant on a number of browser frustrations yesterday over at the dreddit, result of which is I may have found a solution to many frustrations (below). The rant: http://redd.it/256lxu

Among the topics explored:

• There are emerging roles for the browser which likely should be split: a documents management and reading client, an applications platform, a commerce client, and (mostly addressed through existing tools) multimedia access. As is often the case (and has happened with browsers already), I suspect that the new paradigm may emerge not by evolution of existing tools but by the emergence of new ones.

• Tabbed browsing is a crutch used to provide for state management which fails miserably due to the memory overhead of keeping tabs actively open in memory, as well as failing to provide sufficient context.

• The joys of Readability (or similar site simplification tools). The very sorry state of Web styling: more often than not, site styling is a net detriment to readability and utility, not a benefit.

• A slew of other feature requests.

From a related discussion on Hacker News I was pointed at something which, on an hours or so's use, looks like it may actually address numerous of my concerns: Chrome's Tab Outliner Extension

I'm still evaluating it, and it's not quite the solution I was looking for, but this could well be the most revolutionary change to browsing I've seen since tabs first appeared (Firefox's Vimperator being the other contestant).

#browser #extensions #productivity #dreddit #chrome #firefox #readability

Brave new #Internet :-...

#Adware vendors buy #Chrome #Extensions to send ad- and #malware-filled updates

source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/01/malware-vendors-buy-chrome-extensions-to-send-adware-filled-updates/

The #reality, though, is that while it's extremely easy for a novice user to install an extension, it's nearly impossible for them to diagnose and remove an extension that has turned sour, and Chrome Sync will make sure that extension hangs around on all their devices for a long time.

#fail #advertisement #economy #finance #money #web #www #ITNews #Security

Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malware-filled updates

Once in control, they can silently push new ad-filled "updates" to those users.

Chrome Experiments: 3 Dreams of Black. Simply amazing! #webgl #chrome #google http://www.chromeexperiments.com/detail/3-dreams-of-black/