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Beware the Google Threat - Big Fat Ass Brother (BFAB)

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mitzevo:
Google shapes our lives.. well for those who use it any how. Ok, search engines shape our lives, google def. not an exception. All hail big G!  :'(

When we boot up and get online we hardly notice that Google dispatches a cookie set to expire in 35 years. Then Google filters our reality, dictates our aesthetic, collates and catalogs our memories, chooses what information we mine. The Google experience becomes a collective Rorschach test, which shapes our worldview and affects who we are and what we will become.
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Source: http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/news/2005/06/67982 - Beware the Google Threat
Written back in 2005 and only one comment?! Looks like people have other things to worry about..

Suppliments: http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070529/news_mz1e29top.html - The Google threat
http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2003/06/18/1230.html - Google: Threat or Menace?
http://www.buzzmachine.com/2007/10/06/the-real-media-consolidation-google/ -The real media consolidation: Google
http://www.google-watch.org/ - Google Watch - must see

kartal:
I have cookie blockers and script blockers. No site can set a cookie!!! I only let couple of them to set.

I also do not use any other google service and I have google adsense!!!!

mitzevo:
well you'll be going in the "doesn't like/trust us list" then ;) or at least the "wolf" one ;)

ahahaha, j/k.. or am i?  ;)

f0dder:
I still wonder why people are so darn paranoid about cookies. Get an ad blocker, and possibly noscript if you're paranoid about flash exploits (like me :)), but cookie blocking? Come on, that's going over the top.

I'm not particularly fond of the way we're being watched, but google is my least concern (I don't do gmail) - I'm much more afraid of things like Carnivore. And tbh, if I have to watch ads, I'd rather have ads that might actually interest me - so yay google analytics.

mouser:
See my mini-howto on Cleaning Cookies the "proper" way:
https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=11931.0

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