Ooh! Shiny!

[trinityvixen]

Gmail has it so you can send and receive mail through it from your other e-mail addresses. Not just gmail ones neither! Shiny! No more AOL.com for me!

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[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

This article is obviously very one-sided, but it sums up my feelings pretty well:

http://www.google-watch.org/gmail.html

I think they're getting too big. I think it's really scary how when Google releases anything, millions of people jump onto it and want their entire internet (and now desktop!) experience to be google-ized. Even if they're not evil now (and I think they probably are), there's virtually no way that they can stay this way.

There's just too much room for doubt in their privacy policies and such. The fact that Google is in bed with Firefox skeeves me out, too, as does the fact that you can't stop the default Google search in Firefox from reporting information about your web browser.

Call it instinct, I guess. *shrug*

You people enjoy your google. I'll keep using it for web searches and maps (maybe e-mail someday, but probably not) while I clear my cookies every few days.

[slackwench.livejournal.com]

And yet you run Windows, which (if you watch the packets carefully) sends unidentified packets off to some server at MS seemingly randomly. Noone knows what they are, and MS just claims they're a glitch (which happens to exist in every version of Windows...).

[cagexxx.livejournal.com]

Wow, really? I didn't know about that. I'm having trouble finding any information on it (with google searches, haha lol!), so can you send me a link with details or something? Do firewalls block those packets, or is it one of those "Generic Host Process is trying to connect" messages that you're never quite sure what to do with?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It seems to me the threat of governments looking over our shoulder/e-mail is mainly a fault of our current laws on electronic data. That google accumulates the information makes it one more outlet for the gvmt to go to when they want to raid stuffs.

Clearing cookies is a good idea anyway, I should do it more regularly.