Hope there's an opt out. I can imagine all this web history coming back to bite some day.<p>For example during a murder trial:
"And is it true Mr X, that you browsed the page 'Top 10 amusing CSI murder strategies"
"Yes, but.."
"And was number 6 not the exact method used to murder Ms Y?"
<i>Jury murmers in disapproval</i><p>It's like numerology, the more data points you have the higher than odds of finding a couple of data points that coincidentally line up, all in a conveniently subpoena friendly Google data centre.
One of the things they explicitly call out is DNS late binding: it doesn't look like they make any exceptions for CDNs and other services that use geo-IP lookups. You could argue that the speed improvements do away with some of the need for CDNs, but there will probably be some other cases that this breaks. You'd want some way for a specific domain to opt-out: perhaps a DNS text record that gets read and indicates that a site shouldn't be optimized?
So yeah, I know, it actually works, it actually provides benefits. I know, opera has this option too.<p>But really, sending all my data via google, as if all the rest going through them wasn't enough.. doesn't make me all that comfortable. No one company should control OS, client, data at rest and data flows. It's too much responsibilities in one single place.
How does it know if the image is just going to be displayed and can therefore be recompressed vs when the image is used for data? For example many WebGL apps have data in PNGs because they are normal maps or heighmaps. Mucking with the data will mess them up.<p>Other apps store data in their PNGs. For example Monoco encodes its saved game files as screenshot PNGs and stores the save data in the lower order bits of each pixel. Mucking with the data would make it impossible to load saved games.<p>Is there a way for a page to opt out for these cases?
I don't have an Android phone handy, but I'd love to poke at this. Does anyone know the IP addresses they're using for the proxy? Is there any authentication that limits this to Chrome on Android or are they essentially running this as an open proxy?
I wonder if the Engine behind it is Open Source or could we use this services from other browsers like Firefox?<p>This is beneficial for
Getting pass Firewall restriction, from China Firewall to Office Internal Firewalls.
Speed up Internet connection, especially in places where the shared internet is extremely slow. ( Office or Public Computers )<p>While i am already using my own VPN for this purpose. It is much slower compared to a normal internet collection if your VPS is not located close to you.
This seems to only be available to devices capable of a mobile data connection. My WiFi-only Nexus 7 doesn't have the options while my Galaxy Nexus does. I suppose the utility of this service would be limited on a true WiFi connection, but I commonly use my GNex's hotspot capabilities. It's a shame that it seems I can't use this over that connection.<p>Edit: Seems there's a newer version, but the Play Store tells me it's incompatible with my Nexus 7. That would explain the missing flag.
This seems like a rough equivalent of "Onavo" for Android: <a href="http://www.onavo.com/apps/android_extend/" rel="nofollow">http://www.onavo.com/apps/android_extend/</a>