Agreed. Between this and the pending FTC investigation, it seems like everyone has it in for Google right now. Personally, I don't see anything unethical in what they're doing here. A little annoying? Perhaps. But nothing out of bounds.
Given how clueless American legislators have proven themselves to be about online business in the past (e.g., the failed attempts to apply state sales taxes to Amazon which resulted in Amazon dropping their affiliates in those states - ooops, no sales = no sales tax!), is it really any surprise that they're now going after the big G?
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Agreed. Between this and the pending FTC investigation, it seems like everyone has it in for Google right now. Personally, I don't see anything unethical in what they're doing here. A little annoying? Perhaps. But nothing out of bounds.
Given how clueless American legislators have proven themselves to be about online business in the past (e.g., the failed attempts to apply state sales taxes to Amazon which resulted in Amazon dropping their affiliates in those states - ooops, no sales = no sales tax!), is it really any surprise that they're now going after the big G?