February 23, 2005

Google: Doing Evil to its users

Google, a company with a philosophy that includes: #6: "You can make money without doing evil". is now, doing just that with:
  • AutoLink: Google modifies publisher content via their toolbar in Windows Internet Explorer (simple answer - don't), making it look like original links. Dave Winer dives in and explains the issues. John Robb points out googles strategic error.
  • The Google toolbar phones home with every page you land on, and tattles to Google what you're looking at, while offering up your globally-unique Google cookie ID that expires in 2038.
Posted by James Zellmer at February 23, 2005 7:38 AM | Subscribe to this site via RSS:
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