Tom, You should talk to Opera instead of the ISP(s)!
Appears like Opera is delivering visited Web sites to the Mediapartners-Google engine to get the information required to drive their AdSense "you can make some money" when placing on your web site. Google for "Mediapartners-Google Opera" and enjoy. -Kurt. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thomas Hug Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2003 10:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [swinog] Provider spying out users surf activities? Hi I was really surprised, as the "Mediapartners-Google/2.1" visited my page just a few minutes after my visit. This is only a testsite and i am sure that never visited this page since October 2002. So this could not be by accident... adsl-x-y-fixip.tiscali.ch - - [09/Nov/2003:10:05:10 +0100] "GET /favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 286 "http://tom2.nine.ch/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; X11; Linux i686) Opera 7.21 [en]" crawler8.googlebot.com - - [09/Nov/2003:10:09:16 +0100] "GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.0" 404 273 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" crawler8.googlebot.com - - [09/Nov/2003:10:09:16 +0100] "GET / HTTP/1.0" 200 494 "-" "Mediapartners-Google/2.1 (+http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html)" I was on this http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html site and didn't find any spying information. have a look at http://products.tiscali.ch/de/tiscali-agb.pdf paragraph 4, which says: [...] Dar�ber hinaus bearbeitet Tiscali DataComm AG ohne das Einverst�ndnis der betroffenen Kundschaft keine personenbezogenen Daten �ber die Nutzung von Dienstleistungen im Zusammenhang mit dem Internet. Der Kunde ist damit einverstanden, dass seine Daten an verbundene Gesellschaften im Ausland �bermittelt und dort vor�bergehend oder dauernd gespeichert werden. [...] For me, this does not allow the Provider to sell this Information and to process it... How many of you feed this Google engines? Is this legal? -tom ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/ ---------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maillist-Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/swinog%40swinog.ch/
