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(Unverified)Sep 25th 2008 2:02PM

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The story you link to about the German government has nothing to do with the user ID issue. The German government quite simply didn't think people should use beta software (apparently, the German government doesn't know much about the web) and that it didn't think people should use a browser that's from Google because somehow that would magically add more of their information to Google. Of course, I don't think they issued a similar warning not to use the IE8 beta from Microsoft, to which all the same exact arguments against Google could be applied.

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(Unverified)Sep 25th 2008 2:13PM

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OK, awesome. I was unable to parse the whole text, not speaking German, and thought it had to be something more than it being in beta. That it isn't is like, disturbing.

Thanks for the clarification!

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(Unverified)Dec 19th 2008 12:25PM

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The Berliner Zeitung article does mention the government's concern about Chrome's beta status and Google's data-gathering practices (I'm not weighing in on whether those concerns are valid). However, a significant portion of the article concerns security holes in Chrome, especially concerning the handling of financial data.

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(Unverified)Dec 22nd 2008 10:14PM

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Amazing! Just like government to make a decision that people shouldn't use beta software.

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