Google Chrome on Slackware 12.2
in [Slackware]
|
Prev: begone (was: Re: gone)
Next: Mount hfs+ volume
From: Mike Jones on 5 Feb 2010 12:36 Responding to Tuxedo: [...] > ... I tend to trust Google in thinking their philosophy in doing > the right thing still holds true. WOW! -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For all your UK news needs.
From: notbob on 5 Feb 2010 13:02 On 2010-02-05, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > Responding to Tuxedo: > > [...] >> ... I tend to trust Google in thinking their philosophy in doing >> the right thing still holds true. > > > WOW! No kidding. How can anyone be that naive? YO! ...Tuxedo. Wise up: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/sep/04/googlechromeprivacyissuesa Google makes its money by data mining. It wants to know every breath you take and will fudge the law to do it. Take for example the simple cookie google sets when visiting its search page. According to fed law, cookies are not to last more than one year (unless some lobbyist has gotten it changed). Now, look at the cookie google set in your browser. Last time I looked, it didn't expire till 2038! I killed it. So much for trust. nb
From: Tuxedo on 5 Feb 2010 13:17 Mike Jones wrote: [...] > WOW! I should perhaps emphasise "still" as opposed to "indefinitely". I do believe their primary objectives are to provide useful search combined with selling third-party PPC ads, but I don't think they are necessarily engaging in big brother style profiling and data mining, unlike what I experienced the other day after having browsed a particular book topic on either Amazon or Ebay; ads on various news sites displaying books on that particular topic appear to be haunting me around seemingly unrelated web sites thereafter. Obviously someone must be selling my search queries, or it's the effect of a one and same PPC syndicate servicing various media organisations while storing search/cookie values derived from my browsing. Tuxedo
From: Tuxedo on 5 Feb 2010 13:30 notbob wrote: > On 2010-02-05, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: >> Responding to Tuxedo: >> >> [...] >>> ... I tend to trust Google in thinking their philosophy in doing >>> the right thing still holds true. >> >> >> WOW! > > No kidding. How can anyone be that naive? > > YO! ...Tuxedo. Wise up: > > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2008/sep/04/googlechromeprivacyissuesa > > Google makes its money by data mining. It wants to know every breath > you take and will fudge the law to do it. Take for example the > simple cookie google sets when visiting its search page. According to fed > law, cookies are not to last more than one year (unless some lobbyist > has gotten it changed). Now, look at the cookie google set in your > browser. Last time I looked, it didn't expire till 2038! I killed it. > > So much for trust. > > nb I am indeed well aware of cookies and what they are capable of storing based on whatever one happens to input into any given web form and search, purchase etc., but fortunately they can be switched off altogether. But sometimes that becomes a bit of a hassle, mainly due to certain websites tendency to re-direct users to their "preferred" language version URL based on which country IP range one happens to be browsing from, Google included. Tuxedo
From: notbob on 5 Feb 2010 14:20
On 2010-02-05, Tuxedo <tuxedo(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > I am indeed well aware of cookies and what they are capable of storing based > on whatever one happens to input into any given web form and search, > purchase etc., but fortunately they can be switched off altogether. But > sometimes that becomes a bit of a hassle, mainly due to certain websites > tendency to re-direct users to their "preferred" language version URL based > on which country IP range one happens to be browsing from, Google included. OK. As long as you're savvy to some of the issues. Personally, I wouldn't install a google app at gunpoint! ;) nb |