Your tabulous browsing habits can help raise money for charity.
Aren't tabs wonderful? You can open countless web pages without having to close the last and flick between them at will. We could go on about how the advent of tabs in web browsers has changed the way we work/play/surf, but we don't need to. Tabs are just plain useful and everyone kind of knows it.
However, if you want to make your browser work harder than it already does, consider participating in Google's Chrome for a Cause campaign. The program pledges to tally up your tabs at the end of each day and donate money to charity based on how many you opened during the day. Here's how it breaks down:
- 10 tabs = 1 tree planted
- 10 tabs = 1 book published and donated
- 25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided
- 100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built
- 200 tabs = 1 person's clean water for a year
Google has partnered with five charities for Chrome for Cause. These are The Nature Conservancy, Doctors without Borders, Charity: Water, Room to Read, and Un Techno para mi País. To contribute, all you have to do is download the Chrome for a Cause extension for Chrome and start opening tabs. Google is only running the program from December 15 through to December 19 and it's capped at $1 million so be sure to get moving on this as soon as possible for maximum warm and fuzzy feelings.
At least they're going to donate $1 million to some charities.
heres to all the thirsty humans out there!
At least they're going to donate $1 million to some charities.
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.
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.
They'll be sifting through your browsing long after they've hit the cap, that's the point
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.