Sure, you can block it by user agent (the simple string "chrome" will do it). But can I ask why?

Typical Chrome user agent:

"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0"

ok great - why - well its a site about being safe on the net, privacy, security, spyware bla bla and Chrome is on the bad browser list no.1, so the site starts right from the begining to learn the visitors whats safe and whats not.

Also I have thought about a kind of warning on other sites.

so the site starts right from the beginning to learn the visitors whats safe and whats not.

Isn't that a bit of a chicken and egg problem, they come to learn about security and can't access the content?

I'd think it would be more productive providing tips on how to make Chrome more secure, but that's just me.

Chrome is on the bad browser list no.1

How is chrome a bad browser?

They sandbox their sessions making malware injection attempts almost impossible.

If you were truly doing a service, you would block every verion of IE which easily permits PCs to be hacked and allow Chrome, not the other way around.

Privacy isn't worth the paper the concept is written on if your PC is hacked and the hackers have access to everything, including all your passwords.

Consider that REAL privacy, not being infected with sniffing malware, is better than the perceived privacy you're describing which is a myth.

There *IS* no privacy, your ISP knows everything you do, every SE you touch with your IP knows everything you do, every server you touch with your IP is tracking you as well.

Short of using a TOR Proxy, there is no privacy.

[edited by: incrediBILL at 4:32 am (utc) on Jan. 24, 2010]

I have to agree with incrediBILL, It sounds like to me you are wrapping an anti-Google stance in a wrapping of security/privacy. This isn't doing anyone a favor.

Number one on your list of security/privacy concerns should be IE, not Chrome. Remember one of the vectors the Chinese used to hack Google in late December was an IE security vulnerability that MSFT knew about since at least August. They didn't rush out a patch to close the hole until the were publicly embarrassed about it and then folks tried to claim it was a previously unknown security flaw.

I still do not understand why you think Chrome is unsafe (at least compared to the rest)? Or is it just something about Google and how much information they are collecting?

Or is it just something about Google and how much information they are collecting?

Microsoft and Yahoo do the same thing, it's what search engines do.

Besides, but MS and Google have their own browser.

Noboby has ever infected a machine with malware via Chrome best I know but IE has a long and recent history of being an infection festering browser.

And were not even touching the subject of W3 standards compatibility here...

ohh I think you misunderstand me here, IE is also on the list of cause.

What I try to do is giving them a warning right from the start, about chrome as a example, they collect to much info about a user, such things are not popular here in europe, Firefox is a good option, also a point is also to make the normal user aware of what they give away when using this or that when we talk Privacy.

A normal surfer, dont expect a SE/browser to collect everything they do online, hard to believe but it is so.

Google Chrome has an option entitled "help make Google Chrome better by automatically sending usage statistics and crash reports to Google".

Switch it off and the tracking is apparently all gone. It asks that question on installation and anyone concerned about privacy would never have switched it on in the first place.

Firefox is a good option

It is if you disable some of the stuff enabled by default.

How else do you think "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" works?

chrome as a example, they collect to much info about a user, such things are not popular here in europe

Deliberately steering people away from their safest surfing option purely based on privacy hysteria and misinformation is doing way more harm than good.

Firefox isn't so safe, they don't run the sessions in a sandbox, it's like Opera in the fact that it's only giving you a false sense of security from it's relative obscurity compared to IE.

The more other browsers become popular as IE wanes the more they'll become a target.

I'm betting any browser with a sandbox will win in the long run just on security and safety criteria alone.