Google's Donating Money for Every Tab You Open

I use Opera...

time to bring up my autoclicker..

heres to all the thirsty humans out there!

This is both a marketing campaign for Google, and Chrome, and a means to have thousands of people voluntarily install a plug-in which monitors your activity so Google can analyze all the data.

At least they're going to donate $1 million to some charities.

i can so see a 4chan meme coming from this where everyone opens up 100 tabs and cost google alot of money.

Why such a low cap..?

The more you press ctrl+t, the more google donates. But the count appears to require a 1 full second between each new tab. I guess they want to avoid people pressing and holding ctrl+t

This is the kind of advertising I support! Open away boys!

Still, when you have 1M you can buy lots of stuff in large quantities for a significantly lower price.

Meaning is, Google can do more with one mill than you or me could because they are a company and they have permits/credit to purchase HUGE amounts of stuff to give to charity.

Still, I agree, that cap is low and is going to be maxed in a day. I hope they extend the cap once that happens.

i already did the max of 250 tabs. ctrl+t lol

The one issue with it is the time frame and money amount, if the time frame was longer and maybe more money was into it, could be something to feel warm and fuzzy about longer without other weird stuff, cause i gotta redownload myself.

here, here! to Project Purity!

How nice of them...

250 tabs in a VM.... I don't use Chrome, I just like making Google spend money... good cause or otherwise.

Open up your porn on those tabs and know that your helping the needy...

I hate tabs, never use them EVER

Sweet! I am happy about this. I open up multiple tabs across 2 monitors daily! I hope this isn't a virus

1million only??? is it a joke?
and they use the users as an excuse for this?
a lot of companies donate this amount without asking their customers to participate in a game.
if they say we'll spend a maximum of 1billion, I will participate. for 1billion a company can call the public to achieve the goal.
but 1million for google... its ridiculous.

I still doesn't understand why having multiple tabs locked into one window is better then simply opening pages in new windows. When they are in new windows I can still "flick between them" with my alt-tab and I can move them where I like on my desktop if I want to see more than one. I've tried using tabs maybe 3 times and each time I asked myself "why?"

The point here isn't to be charitable. It's to snoop on your data and gain valuable marketing information.

They'll be sifting through your browsing long after they've hit the cap, that's the point

I want to see the proof of Google actually doing it...photos, links, videos, etc.

If this really is the case, the entire world would be making this a headline.

People will believe and do anything if they think its 'generosity' like advertised...do you not think for a second this won't benefit Google in some way? Please...they will generate millions of dollars due to this stunt.

Stop blindly believing they are genuinely good and selfless for doing something like this.

So charity is the latest marketing strategy?

I'd rather have Google donate the 1M already, this is bull****...

In summary, Google are donating a million dollars to charity, which is routine practice for organisations that size, and scamming a bunch of people into using Chrome in the process.

Useless. $1 million? Four days of participation?

What I read here is that... this cause doesn't need me because the limit has already been exceeded. It's not worth my changing my browser for only 4 days...

There goal might not be snooping. They could be using this to draw in a lot of people who had previously never tried Chrome. Its pretty much a sure thing that they'll come out of this with more people using their browser then before. Its actually a really smart way to get new people.

I do agree though that 1M is chump change for Google. Still, I guess it's 1M more then the charities had yesterday. It's win win.

This smells like April fools-day it tastes like April fools-day is waggles like April fools-day and yet we are let to believe it is not April fools-day.

As programmer we should know better as philosophers we should want to know better as politicians we would want to know more and waste money on finding out more and as naive human beings we just play along doing our part for a better (advertised) world.

Still i like it

Hey! please correct the article... the foundation is called "Un Techo para mi Pais" that means "A Roof for my Country" no that i have something against techno music, lol xD http://www.untechoparamipais.org/english/ here you can find more information about this organization, because maybe is the least known from that list, take a look and consider donating your tab-dollars to them! =D

Capped at $1M??? Is that the most tax deduction they can take? C'mon Google... Be charitable. Really.

I go with what rubix_1011 said: i was about to click on the link until i re-read the causes...and then saw the organisations at work here...then it hit me, a million dollar techcorp bringing about a charity op? this feeds both the NGO's and Google's bellies. The recieving end of the charity(the poor) only get a handful of the actual amount noticed...

I can do that - We all need to help.

all together now, ctrl-t, inhale, exhale, ctrl-t, inhale, exhale...