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[Previous entry: "University of Missouri professor uses a program to grade his papers."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Other uses for photoshops."] 05/09/2005 Entry: "Dan Gilmore warns of google privacy issues." Dan Gillmor warns of google privacy issues and recommends to "flush your google cookies." Guess whose google privacy tutorial he linked to. Yeah ok, I'm a shameless, but I really like getting linked to by people I've read before. Gillmor is pretty much correct on this, but I don't think his warning is as dire as it should be. The google web accelerator isn't some piece of software that runs on your computer thatmagically speeds up an already fast connection, its a proxy. A proxy is a server all your web traffic goes through. Now considering google is a datamining company, do you really want them to be able to analyze every bit of data you send and receive? This is a spyware writer's wet-dream. To their credit they don't try to cache encrypted pages (using https), but everything else is. If people really want a faster experience they should really consider the cost of privacy. Not to mention, all this pre-caching stuff is neat, but blocking ads or installing something like flash-block goes quite a bit towards speed boosting without the nasty privacy issues. Most web speed issues can be traced to spyware, downloading large multimedia ads, and loading plug-ins.
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