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| Thread ID: 112231 | 2010-08-28 21:26:00 | Google SSL? | The Error Guy (14052) | PC World Chat |
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| 1132647 | 2010-08-28 21:26:00 | What are peoples views on Google's SSL? I certainly appreciate the fact that at least one company has peoples privacy in mind but why? Its not like most people would be really concerned about search requests, i'm guessing google is going to start charging the feds to look at peoples search history instead of just going to the ISP |
The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1132648 | 2010-08-28 23:05:00 | "at least one company has people's privacy in mind" - yes, this is the same company that tracks everything you do to mine it for behavioural data. Sadly, there's no such thing as privacy on the internet. | somebody (208) | ||
| 1132649 | 2010-08-28 23:33:00 | One reason why I don't install anything made by Google. They're too nosy | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1132650 | 2010-08-28 23:36:00 | Well when I said privacy its a sort of understatement. "privacy" in this case is restricting your life details to google | The Error Guy (14052) | ||
| 1132651 | 2010-08-29 00:36:00 | One reason why I don't install anything made by Google. They're too nosy I used to use Google Earth until they started bundling that updater you can't turn off. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1132652 | 2010-08-29 02:14:00 | Even with this new voice thing in Gmail it installs. Would be nice if it told you that. Or gave you an option to opt out. I didn't know it, till googleupdater appeared in startup. So, I uninstalled it | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1132653 | 2010-08-29 02:16:00 | I have found that it's possible to block it with Comodo. Running Defense+ you just prevent the installer from writing the googleupdater.exe and associated registry entries. Of course you must do that every single time you update and it does get annoying, but it works... The most annoying part is manually allowing the installer to write all the other executables, DLLs and registry entries you actually DO want. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1132654 | 2010-08-29 02:42:00 | Well that's odd, I run a gmail account, Picasa, moderate a google group I own and use Google Earth and there is no google updater on my computer, it is not in startup I just looked or anywhere else. I think you guys must be more paranoid then me, I just refuse to join face thing or anything by Crapple | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1132655 | 2010-08-29 02:49:00 | Its not in Gmail itself. But if you install the plugin so the voice thing works. It'll install the voice part as well as googleupdater. Its the same reason I'm not on FB. What they need to know is none of their business | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 1132656 | 2010-08-29 03:16:00 | Well that's odd, I run a gmail account, Picasa, moderate a google group I own and use Google Earth and there is no google updater on my computer, it is not in startup I just looked or anywhere else. I think you guys must be more paranoid then me, I just refuse to join face thing or anything by Crapple Depends how old your versions of Picasa and Google Earth are, They only added the Googleupdater thing recently. I'm not paranoid about their software (I use their search engine already anyway!) but it annoys me greatly that there is no option to not install or to disable the updater after install. I don't want their updater running in the background wasting resources, and I don't NEED it. I am perfectly capable of downloading an update of the software when I want to. When a company decides that they think they can do whatever they want on my PC that is when their programs get defenestrated. |
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