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- Speedy7, on 06/02/2009, -0/+12I thought it meant surfers in the traditional sense...
- theOster, on 06/02/2009, -0/+6think of everytime someone you know on facebook hits one of those apps and they get that little "this will give us access to all your info and all your friends' info" and they just keep clicking away like happy little clams....can clams click?
that always kills me - esp when they then complain about google and pricvacy - scriptcoder, on 06/02/2009, -1/+6Well if you use Google (or a site that uses google software) for free you should know there's a trade off happening somewhere. Google needs to be paid somehow.
- afritzsche, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5NOSCRIPT.
- piratebill, on 06/02/2009, -3/+8easy solution, set firefox not to except third party cookies and block google-Analytics with your host file
- iamthearm, on 06/02/2009, -0/+5They needed to run a study to find out people want more privacy? Wow. Who is paying these people? I could of told them that.
- jthhtj, on 06/02/2009, -1/+6Now that's a curious demographic to track... studious surfers.
- GorfTron, on 06/02/2009, -0/+4I could never get a job at google, even if qualified. They would be like "Everything looks fine, but what about the repeated searches for Fran Drescher sucking a horse penis?"
- skipvt, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3Welcome to the new world order.
- DonutGuy, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3Opinion can be for public consumption. I'd rather my porn browsing habbits weren't.
- THEbarber, on 06/02/2009, -0/+3All I need are some tasty buds, cool waves, and I am fine. Oh, wait...
- ethana2, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2I thought they meant a torrent tracker.. but I guess that's completely different than a torrent search engine, so, nevermind.
..wait. Cache? Does google cache .torrent files that you can search by filetype? - evergrim, on 06/03/2009, -0/+2My AVG always finds a bunch of these trackers on my system during a regular scan. Doesn't flag them as viruses, just as annoying material.
- MrSkills, on 06/02/2009, -0/+2But what if they had discovered that a lot of ordinary people weren't actually that worried about privacy, after all?
Even if something seems obvious, you have to objectively measure it, otherwise any further research/decisions/policy will be based on assumptions. And sometimes, just sometimes, even the most obvious-seeming assumptions can be wrong. - iamthearm, on 06/02/2009, -1/+3In this case, IMO, it was a waste of money. Just assume everyone is concerned about privacy and move forward. Privacy is important for everyone even for the people that are not concerned about it.
- JustinNoland, on 06/02/2009, -2/+3Its fun to watch people complain about how their privacy is being invaded by these huge corporations in their *public* posts on myspace/facebook/personal blog.
- grapesofbaath, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1I really don't get why this is being dugg down.
- carsu, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1Soon or later google will catch all activity around internet. I just wondering someday google will owned internet market... not now, but 10 or 20 years again, who knows ?
Regards,
http://www.listfreeware.com - slashdotted, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1These are graduate students so it didn't cost anything. Visit their awesome website, http://knowprivacy.org, you might learn something.
- bipolarruledout, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1Yeah... I mean aren't they too stoned to even care?
- theOster, on 06/03/2009, -0/+1tanhks (:
- MrSkills, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1@ DonutGuy: Yes, lack of knowledge is a valid reason why people may not be concerned about internet privacy. This backs up my point. You can't just go "oh that's obvious" and use it as an assumption upon which more important research or policy may be based. The first rule of good research is never to assume anything.
- bipolarruledout, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1That's an awesome misspelling of privacy.
- DonutGuy, on 06/02/2009, -0/+1That would mean, said people would openly talk everything on their mind, truthfully answer any question and have no secrets. Have you ever met such person? Didn't think so.
When you're talking about privacy on the interwebs, the only difference is, "ordinary people" aren't aware of it.
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