Google spying on people again....

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Originally Posted by Jag_Warrior

One of you techies can tell me if I'm being overly paranoid. But years ago I had a toolbar that allowed you to skin the top of IE with a custom photo or whatever. I can't remember the name of it now, but it was very popular. Most of the people I knew then had it. It was made by some Israeli company. Anyway, it came out later that it was nothing more than a fancy piece of spyware. I have refused to use ANY toolbar since then: Google, Yahoo, stock market tickers or any other. I've assumed since then that they want you to install the toolbars so that they can identify you personally, and not just by your IP address. That's why I logout of Google or Yahoo once I'm done checking email and close the browser.

I don't trust any of them.

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I think that's fairly rational. Don't install anything which tunes up your PC or tweaks it....

i dont ever download any additanal toolbars eaither, i've never known toolbars like, Ask, Yahoo, etc... to be a risk to your computer, but i dont really wanna take up space with toolbars i dont really need, so, whenever i've downloaded anything that automaticly installed the Ask toolbar or somthing on my browser i just disabled it