Ever notice that when you sign into, oh, say, Gmail, you sign in at www.google.com? What’s up with that? The reasons are technical, but it should be noted that when more and more traffic goes through the same domain name, you should wonder why. Before I go off the nerd deep-end, if you don’t know […]
Category: Privacy
Google snapped up reCAPTCHA recently. I’m feeling worried. As well, I must have been in a news bubble there, but they also acquired FeedBurner, in, like, 2007. They just re-branded it recently, which is probably why I didn’t notice. Now, I don’t put on the tinfoil hat very often, but Google keeps snapping up large […]
I had to write after reading this article in the New York Times. In short, Google “sees” 92 percent of online traffic for the top 100 internet sites. Other big boys, Atlas (60%), Omniture, and Quantcast (54% – I assume combined) don’t even get
Well, as I’ve said in the past, you can’t expect to use free services and have any semblance of privacy. Facebook updated their Terms of Service (TOS) yesterday and slipped in a little “extra” clause which
I noticed in the past two or so months, after Google upgraded their SERPs to enable users to rearrange and delete results (see thumbnail to right) that the outbound links Google was posting on SERPs were redirects through the google.com site (meaning, they were tracking clicks on outbound links.) Since I often search for something […]
Big bad corporations everywhere are tracking your every activity online! Run for the hills!