Re: SRWare Iron: Chromium without the data-mining

[Ryan Oram <ryan@infinityos.net>]

>From the Ubuntu mailing list, in case of you aren't subscribed there:

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Dane Mutters <dmutters@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think some of you would be interested in reading this page that
> (allegedly) documents some of the (allegedly) somewhat shady
> beginnings of Iron:
>
> http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html
>
> If this information is correct, then I heavily question that Iron is a
> worthwhile project/fork at all, as opposed to being a way to garner
> publicity and money from fear mongering and (amusingly enough) Google
> advertisements on their web page.
>
> --Dane

I wasn't aware of this when I posted this thread on the mailing list.
I still feel, however, the suggestion and DNS-prefetching features be
made opt-in.

Thanks,
Ryan