The Ultimate Site of Worms Armageddon
Other Things => Off Topic => Topic started by: Kaleu on April 19, 2012, 03:18 AM
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I am just spreading knowleadge, I didn't wrote it all, I found important and interesting and now I'm sharing with you all.
Google, as a whole, has been the topic of discussion regarding privacy for a long time. Millions of users rave about the fact that Google does not protect your privacy as well as it should, if at all. Despite this fact, many still use it, mainly because they were never shown any concrete proof that Google spies on you, so they put it aside as internet gossip. I have known for a long time, as have others, how unsafe Google is. However, for those who need the facts, below there are 9 major ways google spies on you and fails to protect your privacy.
1. Google's immortal cookie:
Google was the first search engine to use a cookie that expires in 2038. This was at a time when federal websites were prohibited from using persistent cookies altogether. Now it's years later, and immortal cookies are commonplace among search engines ; Google set the standard because no one bothered to challenge them. This cookie places a unique ID number on your hard disk. Anytime you land on a Google page, you get a Google cookie if you don't already have one. If you have one, they read and record your unique ID number.
2. Google records everything they can:
For all searches they record the cookie ID, your Internet IP address, the time and date, your search terms, and your browser configuration. Increasingly, Google is customizing results based on your IP number. This is referred to in the industry as "IP delivery based on geolocation."
3. Google retains all data indefinitely:
Google has no data retention policies. There is evidence that they are able to easily access all the user information they collect and save.
4. Google won't say why they need this data:
Inquiries to Google about their privacy policies are ignored. When the New York Times (2002-11-28) asked Sergey Brin about whether Google ever gets subpoenaed for this information, he had no comment.
5. Google hires spooks:
Matt Cutts, a key Google engineer, used to work for the National Security Agency. Google wants to hire more people with security clearances, so that they can peddle their corporate assets to the spooks in Washington.
6. Google's toolbar is spyware:
With the advanced features enabled, Google's free toolbar for Explorer phones home with every page you surf, and yes, it reads your cookie too. Their privacy policy confesses this, but that's only because Alexa lost a class-action lawsuit when their toolbar did the same thing, and their privacy policy failed to explain this. Worse yet, Google's toolbar updates to new versions quietly, and without asking. This means that if you have the toolbar installed, Google essentially has complete access to your hard disk every time you connect to Google (which is many times a day). Most software vendors, and even Microsoft, ask if you'd like an updated version. But not Google. Any software that updates automatically presents a massive security risk.
7. Google's cache copy is illegal:
Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google's cache copy appears to be illegal. The only way a webmaster can avoid having his site cached on Google is to put a "noarchive" meta in the header of every page on his site. Surfers like the cache, but webmasters don't. Many webmasters have deleted questionable material from their sites, only to discover later that the problem pages live merrily on in Google's cache. The cache copy should be "opt-in" for webmasters, not "opt-out."
8. Google is not your friend:
By now Google enjoys a 75 percent monopoly for all external referrals to most websites. Webmasters cannot avoid seeking Google's approval these days, assuming they want to increase traffic to their site. If they try to take advantage of some of the known weaknesses in Google's semi-secret algorithms, they may find themselves penalized by Google, and their traffic disappears. There are no detailed, published standards issued by Google, and there is no appeal process for penalized sites. Google is completely unaccountable. Most of the time Google doesn't even answer email from webmasters.
9. Google is a privacy time bomb:
With 200 million searches per day, most from outside the U.S., Google amounts to a privacy disaster waiting to happen. Those newly-commissioned data-mining bureaucrats in Washington can only dream about the sort of slick efficiency that Google has already achieved
There you have it folks. 9 ways, as if one were not enough. Google, as bad as it is for spying, remains one of the best search engines on the planet. Personally, I would use it more, if it were not for these issues. By the way, the above issues, and others, is also why I do not, and will not, use gmail.
Staying informed, in this day in age, is your best weapon. Be it government, companies, internet based operations, or the store up your street, the world is full of people who wish to capitalize on your willingness to accept what you see in front of you as the truth. This is no new thing. These days, secracy is the main strategy. I encourage you to stay informed about as much as you can, because doing so changes you from an unknowning victum, to a person with knowledge, and no matter how much money or influence they may have, in the end knowledge will trump everything. Feed your knowledge, and nurture it, for it is often what makes the biggest difference.
Protect your privacy, and protect your rights and freedoms.
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thanx man
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chinaes hackers spy on you from everywere ??? i tink that not only in google but all global browsers have atleast 1 hacking spyer :-X
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Google is also free.
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thanks kaleu, ill use bing from now on.
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alot of google workers come from the city and stay the weekend where i work, im gonna show them this when i get the chance and see what they say :P
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they will be like ... "ae old news m8" hehe
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Google is also free.
Exactly. And for more free service delivery, they automatedly gather infos of your web behavior and other stuff to deliver personalised adverts to you. But it's not like google employees sit there all day, sniffing through your personal data (imagine they would do that for everyone visiting the web), it's all automated by software. Google basically makes money by their business partners adverts. That's all the magic. Another thing is collecting infos about wireless access points, routers and stuff while they did their Google Streetview trips. This has been done for their location system, which should be an alternative to GPS location system.
Take Google Android for instance, without Google being paid for adverts and stuff, it wouldn't be free. People usually are like "Heh ok, i take the mail account google offers me for free and take Android OS on my mobile phone for free" and then they're like "Huh , i'm getting spied on!" when google uses their (mostly not so obvious) practices to get the cash in for delivering them their free services. Nothing in the world is for free, everything has its price, and for using google you gonna have to pay the price of a loss of privacy (which is kind of a sham, coz you only get spied on by bots). :)
Edit: Btw, Facebook is exactly the same thing as Google, it's just that noone complains about it.
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I have actually tried refusing to use google a few months ago, but the search engine is just too good and if I compare to search results with another search platform google wins 99% with the best and most useful informations.
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Yep... you can try www.duckduckgo.com (http://www.duckduckgo.com) though. It's basically google minus the "Big Brother" stuff. :)
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Yep... you can try www.duckduckgo.com (http://www.duckduckgo.com) though. It's basically google minus the "Big Brother" stuff. :)
duckduckgo.com is the one I compared to google and google gives me more precise results. :x
But it's the best alternative I tried so far.
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I used to use altavista back in the day.
Best source for DBZ pictures when videos didn't yet exist in the internet.
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You mean you searched for every frame you could find, print them out, paste them neatly in a row and used a projector to make it look like that cartoon?
Did you have friends over to do the voices and punching sounds? :)
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You mean you searched for every frame you could find, print them out, paste them neatly in a row and used a projector to make it look like that cartoon?
Did you have friends over to do the voices and punching sounds? :)
I see what you did here, but I remember doing all these things as a child :(
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https://www.ixquick.com/
It allows you to search in a more secure environment. Not to say it is entirely safe, as very little sites on the internet, if any, can make such a claim. It is, however, safer than Google in many respects.
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Why you trying to be so anonym? you afraid some1 check where you live and kick your ass for cheating? XDdDdd