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Google and Facebook Top Biggest Web Tracker List

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-see-what-you-did-there dept.

itwbennett writes "A new report from Evidon, whose browser plug in Ghostery tracks Web trackers, makes it plain that 'if you want to worry about somebody tracking you across the Web, worry about Google,' writes blogger Dan Tynan. Google and Facebook, and their various services, occupy all of the top 5 slots on the Evidon Global Tracker Report's list of the most prolific trackers. 'And if you have any tracking anxiety left over, apply it to social networks like Facebook, G+, and Twitter,' adds Tynan."

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  1. What happened to "Don't be evil? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Seems to me that Google's motto should be retired. Google's been using it as a shield against criticism but clearly they've been what you might consider "evil" for a while now. They've amassed more personal info than anyone else on the planet and their whole business depends on sale or rent of access to people's personal information.

    All of the Google's products have also become massive data collection sinks.From Android to Chrome, these products are just massive pipes to Google's databases.

    As a Linux developer and user, I used to be a fan of Google simply because they were MS' enemy and supported Linux but Google today has more potential to do evil than Microsoft ever was.

    As Google, a public company, experiences more and more revenue pressures from shareholders, they will be pushed to do more bold and reckless moves that deal with people's private info (just remember the Google Buzz fiasco).

    I've been using less and less of Google's services and have blocked most of their domains on the DNS level. Google truly scares me now.

    Google's products might be free but there's a price to pay: your information and its potential to be abused.