Who Do You Trust Least?

Mister Furious points to a story on Yahoo! "about how a recent study found AOL to be the least trusted site on the net. It even got lower trust ratings then Microsoft." It would be good to see the actual survey questions and results, since they're referred to only in vague terms. Partly because of that, the story could proabably appear in the Onion without raising many eyebrows -- it seems to tacitly acknowledge that to these companies, perception is more important than reality. If you don't use AOL or MSN, one's current ISP is always a good recipient of distrust.

Comments

Pr0n?

[Dr_Cheeks]

Frankly, I think that our friends the pr0nographers are way more untrustworthy than AOL. At least AOL doesn't pop-up and pop-under new windows at every given opportunity, including when you close the current browser window (man, I hate that). And they don't attempt to plant suspicious (and occasionally incriminating) cookies on your HD, or do any of those other wonderful tricks that help your boss/parents/significant other argue that you're not doing anything productive on the net. And I'd sure feel better about giving my CC# to AOL than to pr0n sites (we're just using it to check your age, no really....)

AOL are no saints, but they do seem to have developed some scruples as a sort of reponse to potentially bad publicity.

Re:The title is wrong

[juha0]

Do you trust slashdot ?

Nope. Every time I see a link that looks interesting, it leads me to site where this guy is bending over with his ass wide open!

Re:What site do I trust least?

[FatOldGoth]

I agree! That's why I'll always prefer the content of whitehouse.com over that of whitehouse.gov