Re: toolbar addon and provider spying
- From: hlrNO@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Hans Le Roy)
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 05:30:45 -0700
Hi Viktor,
This is amazing. Yes, I know quite a lot of people don't even read the license agreement or the privacy policy...
1 The first and foremost intention of the Google Toolbar was to bind
customers to Google and to collect usage data "to improve the quality of
Toolbar and other Google services", i.e. to log every Web page the user
visits.
It seems normal to me that the toolbar is used to bind customers. It's a nice toolbar and it's a nice search engine. No problem there.
As for logging all pages one visits: this is spying.
* The Google Toolbar contacts our servers periodically to obtain automatic
updates to the latest version, or as part of the uninstall process.
No problem with that. It's a way to make sure software is up to date.
5 Usage data is precious so it is worthwhile to give the Google Toolbar away
for free. Google even pays 1 US $ to Web publishers for every referred
download of Firefox with the Google Toolbar installed. See also
http://explorerdestroyer.com/
I consider such commercial compaigns funded by Google to be unfair.
I have a serious problem with this kind of nearly religious warfare against IE. I can imagine that someone prefers IE (I do) and someone else FF or a different browser. No problem with that. If a software doesn' suit your needs or expectations, don't use it. But this kind of considerations has nothing to do with quality of software.
Kind regards
Hans
.
- References:
- toolbar addon and provider spying
- From: Jim Sant
- Re: toolbar addon and provider spying
- From: Viktor Krammer
- toolbar addon and provider spying
- Prev by Date: Re: Page Cannot Be Displayed
- Next by Date: Re: IE 6 lockups and stymied in repairing the problem
- Previous by thread: Re: toolbar addon and provider spying
- Next by thread: Explorer 6 shows me, and only me, the wrong subdomain website
- Index(es):
Relevant Pages
|
