Wouldn't you know. Just when this gets comfortable. The history of Microsoft proved one thing. The larger a company gets really big, blind greed explodes.
Google operates this blog site. It will be a challenge to them It also recently bought Double Click*. It is one of the most pervasive group of spyware on the internet.
This is alarming. While it is quite understandable for a company to provide advertising on its web pages, it is quite another for a search engine to engage in providing spyware onto users computers.
Not only that. Last January, Google developed a working relationship with Ad-aware**, once an effective anti-spyware company. It climbs into the ever annoying Google Tool Bar which itself is a form of spyware.
The question remains will Ad-aware, a Google Company, have the gonads to remove or block the spyware from Double Click? As a pararepairer for computers, what I see is the development of a very invasive data collection company like Gator***; but one with a giant reach.
For the moment I am serious contemplating of switching away from Google to Altavista.com which is a cleaner less ad invasive form of Yahoo. If you read this please join the move to reduce the use of Google replacing it with other search engines until a written declaration is made by Google to the effect that there will be Chinese Walls between these companies. Of course it is always a good policy to never trust any online computer company.
Why this ethically challenging move? In short it is a response to Microsoft's effort to buy the very invasive Claria or Gator company who I believe seriously attempts to literally take over the home personal computer. Regardless, this is a very serious move the first anti user, pro commercial move by Google. The true colours may be emerging.
Keep checking back to this particular blog entry. It may soon disappear because Google also owns the blogspot.com
Reference links
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Click
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad-aware
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gator_%28spyware%29
2 comments:
This is an interesting topic but it is possible to block a lot of this crap.
For instance, when I first started visiting here, the page loaded so very, very slowly it was disgusting and many times, I just couldn't be bothered waiting.
I added "NoScript" as an Add-On to my Firefox browser and immediately blocked literally all background scripts.
I also use Adblock Plus and I've never seen an advertisement on your page. Are there any? Just curious.
Your blog started loading much, much faster! It's now very quick compared to other pages.
Here's a list of script sources that are blocked now with no ill-effects:
google.com
google-analytics.com
blogger.com
blogspot.com
scotsman.com?
canoe.ca?
doubleclick.net
You always did have doubleclick on here in the past. Now it's owned by Google.
I can't explain scotsman.com or canoe.ca but they probably came in from a couple of your links.
You could leave blogger.com but where would you go?
I'm posting this twice because the stupid blog software doesn't tell you if you were successful and I keep losing posts.
Along these lines, I published the following on the P2Pnet Reader's Survey:
http://p2pnet.net/story/12002
How can a company profess to "do no evil" when they just purchased another company known as one of the "scum of the earth"? I've been blocking and/or deleting DoubleClick cookies almost as long as there has been a WWW.
How much money is enough, Google guys? I guess since you haven't choked on your billions already, you imagine you can digest a few more useless billions of dollars - at the cost of your souls.
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