On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:58:14 +0100, Doug Weller
> wrote:

>On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:51:35 -0500, in rec.food.cooking, Steve Wertz wrote:
>
>>On 2 May 2007 06:20:55 -0700, kaash wrote:
>>
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>>
>>This is how desperate Google is to get people to install their
>>Google Toolbar spyware - they have to pay people to spam the
>>newsgroups peddling their wares.
>>
>
>Utter nonsense.
>http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/googleupdater/
>
>"These days, almost every single toolbar that is released gathers and
>sends user browsing and search information to the toolbar's maker so they
>can target ads at them. Google's toolbar also collects the browsing habits
>of its users, but only if they enable the Page Rank feature deliberately.
>There is a very clear warning that the user's browsing history will be
>sent to Google, and Google lets the user decide if they want that to
>happen.
>
>Unlike other toolbars, this information gathering is used only to make
>Google a better, more accurate search engine, not to target advertisements
>at the user. Google doesn't even make money from the information they
>collect, except indirectly by making their service better."
>
>The article does go on to castigate Google for its automatic update.
>
>It can't be spyware if you have to opt in. Spyware does stuff without you
>knowing about it.
>
That person should either grow up or get off the internet. It's not a
happy place for a paranoid schizophrenic.


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