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They support Open Source unlike Microsoft that would love to kill all open source for their loved PC tax. They don’t try controlling everything you do with their product like Apple through DRM and special, closed, expensive interfaces.

I see a benefit to Google setting up their own backbone. Now they can compete with the AT&T’s and Bell’s to cut rates. Competition is good. I can see Google forcing the major telco’s to speed up their bandwidth and ensure Net Neutrality much more than the Comcast;s or Telus’s of the world. But as we know, with power comes the evil side.

Microsoft had to purchase Yahoo to even get close to Google for search. Yet with bribes and kick-backs, they have increased their search business.

Google pushes and supports open standards. Microsoft had to bribe the ISO committees and stack the mettings to get their not ready for prime time and we won’t use it standard through. Yet Google uses Open Document Format for their on-line apps. Same with open standards for their Cloud. Their mail supports multiple programs and they create plugins to make it work with even closed applications. Microsoft does everything to ensure that you are stuck with their product.

We are used to the evil Microsoft rants but with Google, it is new. I run No Script and I see just about every site using Google Analytic’s scripts. This is just another way of tracking users.

Well, there are ways to ruin some of the data gathering. Change your browser header information. Change your IP addresses by renewing your DHCP lease (if you ISP supports that). Use No Script and block “all things Google”. Use proxies and other tools. There are other DNS servers you can use. Heck, you can even put one on your own computers.

It is time to push for 100% SSL connections to stop Deep Packet Invasion and many of these sites data gathering. Stop, block and delete cookies, including flash cookies (Better Privacy plug-in).

Google has their evil side but they also have their good side. I see both sides of them. I don’t trust them for my privacy but I do think they are out more to support my benefits than either Microsoft or Apple.

A CEO who’s an asshole? Say it ain’t so, Joe!

“However, the moves towards providing equipment for as little as £60 will prove popular with home users and even governments, who will welcome the spread of the internet to homes that could not previously afford the intital costs of purchasing PCs.”

Google. Bringing 1984 closer to you.