Is Google Evil?
Nov 10 2006 15:27
admin edit: don't be lazy, don't copy and paste long articles - link and abstract, give us something to discuss.
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Internet privacy? Google already knows more about you than the National Security Agency ever will. And don’t assume for a minute it can keep a secret. YouTube fans--and everybody else--beware.
Nov 10 2006 15:47
#2
TrackMeNot - that looks cool *installing*.
Just read a bit more about it, very good idea...
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~dhowe/trackmenot/
Nov 10 2006 20:48
#3
Is there something similar to TrackMeNot for Opera?
Nov 10 2006 22:18
#4
I'm not sure, sorry. Not a big fan of Firefox?
Nov 10 2006 23:56
#5
*installs TrackMeNot as well*
Nov 11 2006 17:41
#6
That TrackMeNot is well weird, so far it's searched for 'HIV prevention' 'gaze flickers playfully around' and 'Serena Williams'
If they do try to build up a search profile of me, they're going to think I'm into something very odd indeed 
Nov 11 2006 17:50
#7
Mine just searched for "young women supply" and "Mariah Carey"
Nov 11 2006 17:57
#8
In answer to the question: no, it's really, really, really helpful.
Nov 11 2006 19:17
#9
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/more.html
GMail privacy webpage.
Nov 12 2006 09:54
#10
I love this thing - it's like a glimpse into the mind of the internet. What kind of fuckwit *searches* for download.com - the clue's in the fucking name!
Nov 12 2006 10:52
#11
i was hoping this might be more about google/yahoo et al selling out radicals to the Chinese government. what a bunch of cunts.
Nov 12 2006 21:10
#12
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i was hoping this might be more about google/yahoo et al selling out radicals to the Chinese government. what a bunch of cunts.
Not to mention that they are becoming the Microsoft of the Web...
Nov 12 2006 22:17
#13
There already is a Microsoft of the Web, msn.com
The article in the actual magazine recommends some tools:
TrackMeNot - "Protects against search data profiling by issuing randomized queries to popular search-engines with fake data." Add-on for Firefox.