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---- AutoLink Toolbar feature looks like SmartTags


encyclo - 8:12 pm on Feb 17, 2005 (gmt 0)


Current Google Toolbar features:

  • Sends URL details of every page you visit to Google, providing them a link between your IP address to third-party sites.
  • Conducts and stores searches, which combined with your cookie information and the above information enable Google to comprehensively record all of your browsing habits
  • Stores personal form information including credit card numbers (encrypted) with the Autofill option
  • On installation, automatically changes user's default search preferences and browser functionality
  • Scans and rewrites third-party pages to insert dynamic links to Google's own services

    ... and much more.

    Is the Google Toolbar spyware? Talks like a duck, walks like a duck...

    If this toolbar had been built by Claria rather than Google, it would be removed on sight by every anti-spyware product on the planet.


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