Comments on: Google weds you to its ad products http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:36:32 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Maelstorm http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358/comment-page-1#comment-242637 Maelstorm Wed, 19 Dec 2007 09:14:35 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358#comment-242637 I use Google to search, and I have my web browser setup to dump all cookies when it closes. So as far as these internet scumbags...er...bussiness know, I've never been to their site before. Oh, and since I run my own DNS server, I have all the major online advertisers blacklisted. When I do a query on ad.doubleclick.net, I get back NXDOMAIN instead of their real IP address, which is 65.205.8.152, 65.205.8.52, 216.73.87.74, etc...since they have a load balancer... I use Google to search, and I have my web browser setup to dump all cookies when it closes. So as far as these internet scumbags…er…bussiness know, I’ve never been to their site before.

Oh, and since I run my own DNS server, I have all the major online advertisers blacklisted. When I do a query on ad.doubleclick.net, I get back NXDOMAIN instead of their real IP address, which is 65.205.8.152, 65.205.8.52, 216.73.87.74, etc…since they have a load balancer…

]]> By: The Angry Offender http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358/comment-page-1#comment-241085 The Angry Offender Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:49:17 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358#comment-241085 I use AltaVista to search. :) I use AltaVista to search. :)

]]> By: kurt wismer http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358/comment-page-1#comment-240555 kurt wismer Mon, 17 Dec 2007 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/14358#comment-240555 "And shouldn’t, “will provide personalized information to each Google product you us” actually read, “will provide personalized information to the owners and/or advertisers of each Google product you use”?" GOOGLE is the owner and/or advertiser of the google products people use... google products include blogger.com, google reader, google docs, google calendar, etc... these are the products your profile is tied to, not "products Google clients are advertising", and yes you signed up for it when you signed up to use that product - it's called having an account... "Is this in any way akin to the Facebook effort when Zuckerberg, et al, tried, and failed, to follow its users around the Net so it’d know what they were up to, as well as where and when?" no, it's not akin to that at all... a) there is no involvement with 3rd party sites, b) there's no mention of keeping track of what you do (although it's well known that google keeps logs of what people do in google's services/'products') only what services/'products' you use, and c) you'll supposedly be able to share as much or as little as you want... this basically means there's going to be a page with my name on it that says i use blogger and reader and calendar and a bunch of other google services/'products' if i so choose... “And shouldn’t, “will provide personalized information to each Google product you us” actually read, “will provide personalized information to the owners and/or advertisers of each Google product you use”?”

GOOGLE is the owner and/or advertiser of the google products people use… google products include blogger.com, google reader, google docs, google calendar, etc… these are the products your profile is tied to, not “products Google clients are advertising”, and yes you signed up for it when you signed up to use that product – it’s called having an account…

“Is this in any way akin to the Facebook effort when Zuckerberg, et al, tried, and failed, to follow its users around the Net so it’d know what they were up to, as well as where and when?”

no, it’s not akin to that at all… a) there is no involvement with 3rd party sites, b) there’s no mention of keeping track of what you do (although it’s well known that google keeps logs of what people do in google’s services/’products’) only what services/’products’ you use, and c) you’ll supposedly be able to share as much or as little as you want…

this basically means there’s going to be a page with my name on it that says i use blogger and reader and calendar and a bunch of other google services/’products’ if i so choose…

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