[Criminal Number 18F]

They want to sell bits of control over your system to the highest bidders.

They already have. If you run XP, every time you do an internet search, the machine connects to a server at Microsoft and stores your computer information and search terms there in a database.

I bet that gives everyone here a warm fuzzy. Imagine what President Hillary! could do with that data? We'd be FReeping together in the camps.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[discostu]

Actually I think that feature is in IE not XP. And Netscape does something similar but only if you use their crappy search page (I'm a Netscape fan, it's what I use, but lately I tend to be rather disappointed in them).

[rdb3]

They already have. If you run XP, every time you do an internet search, the machine connects to a server at Microsoft and stores your computer information and search terms there in a database.

You got a link or something for this? I'd like to read up on it. I hope that this is not the case, but you never know.

[dwollmann]

They already have. If you run XP, every time you do an internet search, the machine connects to a server at Microsoft and stores your computer information and search terms there in a database.

If you use Microsoft software (I don't, it isn't adequate for my needs) then you'll have to bite the bullet and take what they give you. Those of us who use other solutions aren't happy with this situation, as you might imagine.