Microsoft Lampoons Google Chrome Ad

Microsoft make me sick with these types of adds, just because Google is doing better than them in various market shares they have to resort to this type of smear campaign. i know Google tracks me, i don't care, i have nothing to hide, Google makes great products and services that i really enjoy and if i don't want adds i install addblock. if i want privacy i would enable various privacy add ons and services.
 
As far as parodies go, this is a pretty good one as it seamlessly mimics the original Google ad.

As for the actual truthfulness of the parody, it is overly dramatic but I do think does point out the essence of Google's business model, targeted advertising that's achieved by looking at people's data. I don't think that this is well understood my many folks and it is a complex subject and to some degree everyone does similar things, but Google is probably the biggest player here.

I don't have a problem with the methods overall and it does allow Google to offer services without people having to pay for them directly which is a fair trade overall. But some will not like it, as some will not like anything.
 
Fact of the matter is, in regards to services that MS has that compete directly with Google services, they do the same damn thing. Honestly, like s0eViL said, I dont care that they track my everyday usage patterns, as anything that I don't want to track I keep offline, encrypt, etc. So its really a non-issue. I would rather them be tracking me and providing a FREE service in exchange then be tracked and have to pay for that service.
 
s0eViL said:
Microsoft make me sick with these types of adds, just because Google is doing better than them in various market shares they have to resort to this type of smear campaign. i know Google tracks me, i don't care, i have nothing to hide, Google makes great products and services that i really enjoy and if i don't want adds i install addblock. if i want privacy i would enable various privacy add ons and services.
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Its not a smear when its true. :)

I don't get why people worship Google like they worship Apple. So strange to be brand loyal to that you desire an inferior product.
 
Hey Microsoft! If you don't like those Android licensing fees you're collecting, you can send them my way, you stupid idiots!
 
amddragonpc said:
Hey Microsoft! If you don't like those Android licensing fees you're collecting, you can send them my way, you stupid idiots!
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Chrome is a web browser and there's no money changing hands over it since Google didn't steal stuff from Microsoft to make it like they did with Android.
 
Microsoft has really never been a market leader. They just can't seem to bring new products to market that end up being popular, at least in my mind. This is of course outside their O/S's. They are a market follower, not a leader. They throw gobs of money at whatever they want to try and sway things in their favor. Bing is not gaining users. Windows phone? Yeah right. I could go on and on.

Also, the fee's Microsoft collects from Android handset makers is questionable. Not all handset makers pay these fees, although most of the larger companies do. Also, this is more or less a cost of doing business. Google does not pay any of these fees and in fact has cried foul. These very small fees are 100% covered by customers.

With the Apple iPhone following out of favor and Apple stock still shedding it's value, Android is only going to increase 1000x fold.
 
s0eViL said:
Microsoft make me sick with these types of adds, just because Google is doing better than them in various market shares they have to resort to this type of smear campaign. i know Google tracks me, i don't care, i have nothing to hide, Google makes great products and services that i really enjoy and if i don't want adds i install addblock. if i want privacy i would enable various privacy add ons and services.
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lol, these ads are good, if you don't have the heart to attempt to kill your competition if given the chance, then you probably won't be in business long.

Microsoft has been sitting on their ass for too long, about time for some change.
 
Internet Explorer's HTML5 and CSS3 support are still behind everyone else's and until IE10, it's wasn't even CLOSE to the other browsers in support.

They need to fire the entire team and just start over with people that aren't incomptent.
 
My only problem with this ad is the animation of Chrome taking money out of my pocket. It doesn't cost ME any money to use Google's free services and still enable them to make profit from me. Google's free services are usually vastly superior to MS', and if that's enabled by somebody else paying for it, fine by me.
 
I have an IT company named "Layman Technologies". I was telling my accountant the other day I want to go after bigger companies. He said he didn't like my name. I retorted that I've had people say they like the name. He recommended tracking who likes it and who doesn't, so I know who to market to... and I may need a new business/name to appeal to businesses.

And so I did. I started asking my existing clients what they thought of my name. I'm tracking their demographic and their different mindsets regarding various words attached to IT words. And guess what? I'm going to monetize that info! MWAHAHA! THE EVIL!!!

Seriously though. If Google is selling PERSONAL, PRIVATE information to third parties (ie, John Smith of 123 Spooner St spends 32.4 minutes each week at the adult novelty shop, and spends 4.38 hours each week watching porn), come on out and say that Google is selling your PERSONAL, PRIVATE information. But gathering general information (*cough*census*cough*) and monetizing that info (*cough*taxes*cough*)... gee, that's never been done before. /sarcasm
 
xp3nd4bl3 said:
My only problem with this ad is the animation of Chrome taking money out of my pocket. It doesn't cost ME any money to use Google's free services and still enable them to make profit from me. Google's free services are usually vastly superior to MS', and if that's enabled by somebody else paying for it, fine by me.
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Hmm, Microsoft had best be careful. Comparitive Advertising has some pretty strict regulations set by the FTC. Mainly being it has to be truthful and non-deceptive.
 
Well just replace with the Chrome symbol with IE and Monetization with Viruses and Exploits.

Its not like MS is a bastion for security and privacy, they will hang you out to dry when it suits them.

What pisses MS off is that they are giving away IE for free and they don't make money on it.

I don't use Chrome because I don't like it. I do use SR Iron which is excellent but I am a fuddy duddy and use firefox because it works better with MS products then IE 10 does.
 
They forgot that it also works very well. Something their product didn't do for a very long time.
 
This isn't so much an IE advertisement as it is a "don't use Chrome, don't use Google" advertisement. Basically trying to hit Google where it matters, in the advertising pocketbook.
 
heatlesssun said:
As for the actual truthfulness of the parody, it is overly dramatic but I do think does point out the essence of Google's business model, targeted advertising that's achieved by looking at people's data.
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The actual truthfulness is nonexistent. It is based entirely on the claim that Chrome tracks what you do, which is false. It does nothing of the sort.

Google's properties definitely track you, but they do that entirely independently of Chrome and track you just as well if you use IE. Or Safari. Or Firefox.

It also depicts Google as stealing your money, which is clearly false.

CreepyUncleGoogle said:
Its not a smear when its true.
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Hence why this is smear - it's not true.

CreepyUncleGoogle said:
I don't get why people worship Google like they worship Apple. So strange to be brand loyal to that you desire an inferior product.
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Really? The dude who named himself after a company is complaining that others are "brand loyal"?

And let's be honest, Google's products are very much not inferior. You may not like the privacy of them (or lack thereof, as the case may be), but inferior they very much are not.
 
niconx said:
This isn't so much an IE advertisement as it is a "don't use Chrome, don't use Google" advertisement. Basically trying to hit Google where it matters, in the advertising pocketbook.
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Eh... even if you don't use Chrome you're still going to use Google Search. But assuming MSFT convinces people to not do that, either, you're *still* going to see Google's ads most of the time when you click on a Bing search result.

But there's no way this ad, or those like it, are going to convince people to stop using the 2 most popular search engines in the world - Google.com and YouTube.com (yes, youtube.com's search is actually more popular than Yahoo or Bing)
 
RealityCrunch said:
Hmm, Microsoft had best be careful. Comparitive Advertising has some pretty strict regulations set by the FTC. Mainly being it has to be truthful and non-deceptive.
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What's not truthful? Microsoft is exactly right--Google makes its money from selling data about my Internet habits and preferences. People pay for that in the prices of the Internet goods and services they procure--so, people pay the Google piper whether they want to or not. Just because it's hidden from the consumer doesn't mean he isn't being charged.

I had to remove Chrome because I couldn't disable its auto-update program. Even when I turned it off and removed it from memory and removed it from Windows "run" registry settings, just like trusty old malware, next bootup ol' Google update was installed and running again. The only way to get rid of it is to uninstall Chrome, so that's what I did.

Am I going to trust a program Chrome runs that I know nothing about but that Google won't let me disable? Nope, no more than I would trust malware on my system.

But, I have been running GMail for quite a while now without a problem--although I'm very likely going to switch over to Outlook.com in the near future--still thinking about that.
 
What's not truthful? Microsoft is exactly right--Google makes its money from selling data about my Internet habits and preferences. People pay for that in the prices of the Internet goods and services they procure--so, people pay the Google piper whether they want to or not. Just because it's hidden from the consumer doesn't mean he isn't being charged.
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Do the prices of these internet goods and services change based on what browser they're using? If anything, Google saves them money, since targeted ads are more efficient for the businesses than non-targeted :p
 
Irony is that Microsoft wants to do the exact same thing, but has failed.

what, Bing doesn't want to make a profit off of users?

My data is worthless and I never look at ads. But if google makes money off of it so they can provide me with free shit like Google voice and storage, I say go ahead and scroogle me.
 
kllrnohj said:
The actual truthfulness is nonexistent. It is based entirely on the claim that Chrome tracks what you do, which is false. It does nothing of the sort.

Google's properties definitely track you, but they do that entirely independently of Chrome and track you just as well if you use IE. Or Safari. Or Firefox.

It also depicts Google as stealing your money, which is clearly false.



Hence why this is smear - it's not true.



Really? The dude who named himself after a company is complaining that others are "brand loyal"?

And let's be honest, Google's products are very much not inferior. You may not like the privacy of them (or lack thereof, as the case may be), but inferior they very much are not.
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I have a good set of horse blinders that can help you stay aligned to the Google doctorine. (I also own a nice collection of riding crops and don't have any horses, but I won't mention that here.) Anyway, back to the discussion at hand, do you have proof that Google doesn't do this tracking thing? Maybe a security expert's testimony or something else credible. Creepy Uncles everywhere would like to know.
 
the burden of proof rests on the person making the claim not the people you're trying to push into proving a negative

show us the evidence you have from security experts stating that chrome is personally tracking everyone's behavior
 
mope54 said:
the burden of proof rests on the person making the claim not the people you're trying to push into proving a negative

show us the evidence you have from security experts stating that chrome is personally tracking everyone's behavior
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Its okay to bow out. I approve of this because its supportive of the almighty Google. Besides, we all know Google tracks as much as it can and saying it doesn't is just foolishness.
 
there is a wide gulf between monetizing aggregate data and selling someone's personal information
 
mope54 said:
there is a wide gulf between monetizing aggregate data and selling someone's personal information
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I'm glad we can agree that Google engages in data collection and profits from it even if the terminology has to be sanitized in order to prevent cognative dissonance.
 
If you didn't know Google tracks you online, you're either incredibly stupid or very stupid. Pick one. They track you, sell some information, and use other information to make their services better. From search to reviews to ads and more.

Don't like it, don't use it. Simple.

IE has a No-Track option. It's new(ish). Microsoft does the same thing on a lot of things. Bing, for example.
 
kllrnohj said:
The actual truthfulness is nonexistent. It is based entirely on the claim that Chrome tracks what you do, which is false. It does nothing of the sort.

Google's properties definitely track you, but they do that entirely independently of Chrome and track you just as well if you use IE. Or Safari. Or Firefox.

It also depicts Google as stealing your money, which is clearly false.



Hence why this is smear - it's not true.
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Sure it doesn't matter what browser one is using and that part is misleading but this ad is an attack more of the Google business model than Chrome. The ad perfectly correct in saying that Google monetizes its users by tracking user data and selling ads. This is how Google makes the bulk of its money.
 
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