Martin Visser <[email protected]> writes:
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Brett Mahar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> You might like to check out SW Iron instead of Chrome, it is the same
>> thing but without the many Google tracking devices built-in:
>>
>> http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php
>
> You just gotta love that SRware are obviously down on "Google tracking" yet
> are quite willing to take their money by offering Google Ads on both the
> side and bottom of their page.
Yeah. FWIW, once you start to poke at that the whole thing ... aw, heck.
Let me just add to this an excerpt from the Debian mailing lists when this
same thing came up:
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=50358
At the time SRWare also used a service provider that used pop-under
advertising to make money.
So, yeah. As far as I can see this is, in essence, an implementation of the
principal that if you pander to paranoia then you can make money from ... the
folks who care enough to worry about privacy, but not enough to actually do
the research themselves.
Daniel
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