Comment by aeurielesn | Hacker News Reader

Comment by aeurielesn | Hacker News Reader

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For your information (from Google Chrome for a Cause's Terms of Service):

  Terms of Service
  [...]
  The Charitable Donation
  Google has set a maximum contribution of $1,000,000 associated
  with the Google Chrome for a Cause extension.
  [...]
  Limit on tabs submitted
  Google Chrome for a Cause sets a daily maximum for the number of
  tabs you may submit, presently equal to 250 tabs per day. You are
  also limited to accruing one tab per second towards your daily maximum.

tl;dr:

  1) maximum contribution of $1,000,000
  2) maximum 250 tabs per day
  3) you get only one tab per second

That shouldn't stop anyone from installing it and making sure they reach the maximum of 1 million dollars.

I am pretty sure they were aiming to reach that maximum since the beginning anyways.

Exactly. They just want some publicity so that people use Chrome. What better way than encouraging people to open lots of Chrome tabs?

It seems you need a Google account to be able to send your tabs, so it does not seem that they were aiming solely to publicize Chrome. Probably they boosted-up the Google's account registration and post-registration page just before announcing the campaign.

well without these restrictions my browsing habits would have saved the planet in 2 days :)

It looks like it matches the maximum donation Microsoft was making for the "browser for the better" campaign. The only difference is IE donated per download, not for usage.

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