Drew wrote:
I noticed as I was signing up that " Creating a Google Account
activates Personalized Search, which finds the search results most
relevant to you based on your search history and more. " That's
pretty disturbing to me. I know I can turn it off, but somehow I
doubt that checkbox actually disables this "feature" of Google.
Maybe not, but there is a Firefox extension called CustomizeGoogle that
has a number of options to protect your privacy; you might want to check
into that.
Google can track me by IP, and I can't do anything about that.
Actually according to what I've been reading, you can; see above, and
other Firefox extensions for anonymizing your internet use.
But
voluntarily giving Google more info (like my email address, my
proclivity for talking about Macs, etc) sounds like a bad idea.
Right now, somebody has to go figure that out by adding up
information from various websites. Using Google puts it all right
there in Google's database.
Is anybody else concerned about this, or am I just paranoid?
I'm not that thrilled about the issues this raises either. But I can
understand why Dan is moving the lists, since the Maclaunch service has
drawbacks of other kinds.
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