http://blog.eop.org.uk/192-the-google-life/ The flamboyant insights of a teenage web developer from England, UK. Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:21:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://blog.eop.org.uk/192-the-google-life/#comment-1137 Sunny Man’s Blog - Where matter and anti-matter are friends... Wed, 25 Oct 2006 20:28:48 +0000 http://blog.eop.org.uk/192-the-google-life/#comment-1137 [...] With the new release, Mozilla have put a lot of emphasis on security by introducing a phishing filter. In previous versions of Firefox this was also provided by a third-party extension such as the Google Toolbar but is now provided by both Mozilla and Google, in-built into Firefox. This is handy and puts the browser in good running with the less experienced web users as well as internet regulars such as myself, ahem . As usual, if you use Google as your phishing filter, every website you visit is sent to them and this may deter some users from using the service (as was discussed in a previous post on Google). [...] […] With the new release, Mozilla have put a lot of emphasis on security by introducing a phishing filter. In previous versions of Firefox this was also provided by a third-party extension such as the Google Toolbar but is now provided by both Mozilla and Google, in-built into Firefox. This is handy and puts the browser in good running with the less experienced web users as well as internet regulars such as myself, ahem . As usual, if you use Google as your phishing filter, every website you visit is sent to them and this may deter some users from using the service (as was discussed in a previous post on Google). […]

]]> http://blog.eop.org.uk/192-the-google-life/#comment-925 Cow Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:13:58 +0000 http://blog.eop.org.uk/192-the-google-life/#comment-925 Interesting thoughts. I personally don't trust Google with my data and I try to minimize the amount of information Google knows about me whilst still using their services by actively blocking unique identifier cookies, removing click tracking, disabling personalized search and using multiple accounts. The thing is, Google is still quite a young company and I don't know if it's so wise to give so much of your data to a company which could still move in a lot of directions. Interesting thoughts. I personally don’t trust Google with my data and I try to minimize the amount of information Google knows about me whilst still using their services by actively blocking unique identifier cookies, removing click tracking, disabling personalized search and using multiple accounts. The thing is, Google is still quite a young company and I don’t know if it’s so wise to give so much of your data to a company which could still move in a lot of directions.

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