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rovingcowboy - May-13-2003 server time

maybe i should not have gone to any of them???

Wren - Apr-25-2003 server time

I ran Ad-aware after reading that article and found nothing. I didn't go to any of the links in the article.

Wren - Apr-25-2003 server time

Guess I better run Ad-aware too.

rovingcowboy - Apr-25-2003 server time

just to for your info.

i just got kicked so hard by spyware it caused me to have to get offline and then run ad aware to get back on.

i run ad aware before i do anything on this computer because it runs at start up.

so there was no spy ware on my system. but after i went to the artical to read it i had 13 spy ware files on my computer.??

so where is the bigger spy??

rovingcowboy - Apr-25-2003 server time

QUOTE

6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf. Yes, it reads your cookie too, and sends along the last search terms you used in the toolbar. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you phone home. Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google

that is a qoute from that long artical.

it is well known that this is in fact a false report. now it is one to do an automatic update it does not scann your hard drive as said above.
it is also not the same kind of toolbar cookie as alexa was.
this google cookie is as it says it is just a ranking one.

i have the same type of rankingware on my site.
you just have to send the information i am asking for your self by clicking on a button, it is to send it automaticly but i have never got it to do that.

it is just a simple javascript. go to my table of contents page and it is on the bottom of the page. this is ranking ware, which is what google claims to be.

and since this one item is being miss represented on this artical site then i cant take the rest of the artical as truthful either.

just remember this and you will never be surprised.

remember 50% of what you read, 50% of what you hear 50% of what you see in photos or tv, or movies, and 100% of the bible. and you will never be caught off guard.

manadren - Apr-25-2003 server time

By the sound of that article it almost seems liek google is a large internet corporation! ... .... .... which they are. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of that was true, and I also wouldn't be surprised if there were countless other large corporations doing the same or worse. Google is a business, in a business world where people don't care who or what they step on, all they care about is the price of their stock.

I'll still use google, sure I'll never install their little toolbar, but I wasn't going to do that anyway. Google is the best at what they do, and I would think it was thier successthat put them in this situation, as a company grows, you have more people to worry about, people with lots of money and the power to destroy you, and all they want is more money. I'm sure google wouldn't be dong such things if it hadn't become so popular.

jamezua - Apr-25-2003 server time

Wooooot ? Thanks for the info , anyway I
use always Copernic Agent , wise guy ...

katinamarie72 - Apr-25-2003 server time

I like Google and us it all the time........

~Red Squirrel~ - Mar-10-2003 server time

Oh, and that' s me, Red.

Sick of having to log in twice every time, I'll stick around as a guest for now, unless something goes wrong like a troll or something. For now I'm undercover.

Guest - Mar-10-2003 server time

I think boomspeed allows it, ain't it there where you host your sig? You could put it on that host. I think what tropod does is check your IP, and if it's the site's owner they allow it or something, since I noticed that too when I used to host on Tripod, or maybe it detects if that IP loaded html or something. Not sure.

wldkos - Mar-10-2003 server time

thanks red, although I have no idea what is up with tripod. The hotlinked images work for me, and then today at school, i get a "hosted by tripod" image. IS there such a thing as a free host that supports hotlinking? Damn :censored:. They giv eyou 20 mb as well, which is super nice.

Red Squirrel - Mar-10-2003 server time

I like google too, it's pretty much the only search engine I use. I like the fact that it puts the keywords in the search bar. That way I know how people get to my site.

Some people type "autoCAD warez download" and my site is not far down, kinda strange but that's a good thing.

It's a popular keyword.

That picture is cool, feel free to hotlink it for the Anything forum's thread on the buddy christ thread. This ain't tripod.

wldkos - Mar-10-2003 server time

was that real? I enjoy google, especially over yahoo since it doesn't work anymore.

I especially enjoy http://google.com/linux

Red Squirrel - Mar-09-2003 server time

http://www.google-watch.org/bigbro.html

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