MatthewHSE - 2:51 am on Feb 5, 2005 (gmt 0)

To be read as humor, NOT sarcasm:

Let's take a look at our choices for browsers:

First, we have Mozilla, FireFox, K-meleon, Netscape, and the rest of the Gecko clan. They all look pretty good . . . fast, pretty well secure, and - Whoops, can't trust them, they have built-in Google search capabilities. Google sure is evil these days. So those browsers are out.

Ah, but we have Opera! Surely that one is good! Oh, no, forgot, they have Google text ads in their free version. Decline those, and they serve graphical third-party ads. Forget the handy features, Opera is out too.

Now we come to Internet Explorer. Yes, that must be a good choice! Why, the folks at Microsoft are so careful of our privacy that, besides keeping the source code top secret, they won't even let IE be uninstalled! That, and they allow anyone who wants to, add their own custom changes to the program. How nice! Of course, IE simply must be the way to go!

In all seriousness, don't you think that even Joe Coder, who builds his own browser, might not get a kick out of gathering some usage data from its users?