Re: alexa - google toolbar behaviour

[Times Enemy <times () krr org>]

Greetings.

Isn't Alexa spyware, or somehow related to spyware?  I remember they 
used to have some sort of issue that caused me to ban them from systems.

Regarding the oddities, did i mention that i think Alexa is/was somehow 
related to spyware?

I have not tried this of late, but not too long ago, it used to be 
possible to tweak what the browser was claiming.  There even used to be 
"tools" that did this, however they were probably in cahoots with Alexa, 
and ... oh wait, i already mentioned what i think about them.

Regarding google as spyware ... hehe, that is a very interesting 
statement.  Sure they could be lying, but i am dubious this is the 
case.  Their shareholders would not be happy, nor would i.

http://www.google.com/corporate/software_principles.html

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

http://desktop.google.com/eula.html

http://desktop.google.com/privacypolicy.html

How did you think that the google toolbar would be able to conduct a 
search, and do other things like display page rank information?

Why would you voluntarily install spyware, if you believe it to be 
such?  If you do not like it, uninstall it.

I am still trying to figure out if you were just trolling this list or 
otherwise.  Either way, you should probably be more concerned with 
Alexa, or the www.realist.gen.tr link which you are using on your site, 
than Google.

.te


Mehmet Buyukozer wrote:

> Hi All
>
> Lately, I saw several webserver statistics showing exact number of browsers
> and operating system's that the visitors using so decided to analyze what my
> browsers (IE, Opera, Mozilla) are sending to webservers. I was using google
> toolbar and alexa toolbar addons on IE and when I checked what IE sending as
> User-Agent, I saw the result in below. It might seem normal that Alexa adds
> its print to IE's agent properties but I already disabled from "Add-on
> Management" . And also another thing is www.k2pdf.com has anybody idea what
> this comes from? Is there a way of hacking these headers from registry or
> somewhere else?
>
> Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; www.k2pdf.com; SV1; .NET
> CLR 1.1.4322; Alexa Toolbar)
>
>
> Another thing, as I already accepted the legal issues for google toolbar as
> spyware, I was not expecting such a behaviour.
>
> It sends all your surf information to google.
>
> An example for this:
> http://toolbarqueries.google.com/search?client=navclient-auto&googleip=O;130
> 2&ch=62317384429&iqrn=3neB&orig=0H8Hr&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&features=Rank:FVN&q=
> info:http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Esonofnights%2Ecom%2F
>
> Regards
>
> Mehmet
>
> www.sonofnights.com
>