[the invisib1e hand]

meanwhile, google pilfers every event on your machine including your emails and puts it all into a statistical magic box and sells it to marketers as the keys to your soul and wallet.

can you believe someone has actually pulled off that what they are doing?

I'd give anything for the days of ma bell and the us mail.

[dayglored]

> meanwhile, google pilfers every event on your machine including your emails and puts it all into a statistical magic box and sells it to marketers as the keys to your soul and wallet.

Only if you use Google Mail and Google Desktop.

I sure as hell don't use either one.

> can you believe someone has actually pulled off that what they are doing?

Sure! There's a ton of suckers in the crowd of users on the internet. It's call the Free Market. I wouldn't trade it for anything less.

> I'd give anything for the days of ma bell and the us mail.

Last I looked, Ma Bell was slowly gathering herself together again. And the USPS is still fully functional. Knock yourself out.

[Chickensoup]

meanwhile, google pilfers every event on your machine including your emails and puts it all into a statistical magic box and sells it to marketers as the keys to your soul and wallet.

Can they really do this?

[Calvinist_Dark_Lord]

meanwhile, google pilfers every event on your machine including your emails and puts it all into a statistical magic box and sells it to marketers as the keys to your soul and wallet.

The TrackMeNot extension for Firefox can fix that for you if you're using Firefox.