Is google toolbar spying - even when it says it does not?

**Vation** · 28.01.10, 12:26

Google has updated its browser toolbar after the application was caught tracking urls even when specifically "disabled" by the user.

In a Monday blog post, Harvard professor and noted Google critic Ben Edelmen provided video evidence of the Google toolbar transmitting data back to the Mountain View Chocolate Factory after he chose to disable the application in the browser window he was currently using.

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Google Toolbar caught tracking users when 'disabled' ? The Register

**BrianBosworth** · 04.02.10, 22:25

Big brother is always watching what you do

**slikrapid** · 04.02.10, 23:02

Originally Posted by BrianBosworth

Big brother is always watching what you do

well, not always, but he tries his best to widen the spying network as much as possible

**cheatos** · 04.02.10, 23:19

i never trust toolbars,
however by using Google to search, they will also spy on you..

they won't check <insertHugeNumberOfUsersHere> records so i won't bother...
if you are Ultra-Paranoid, use Scroogle Scroogle

**SBfreak** · 04.02.10, 23:29

if you are Ultra-Paranoid, use Scroogle

anon recommended that thing to you too?

**cheatos** · 04.02.10, 23:33

yes, i remember anon posting that before

**anon** · 04.02.10, 23:33

I use it for all my searches. And my portable Opera uses its SSL version.

**SBfreak** · 04.02.10, 23:39

To be honest,I don't like the way the way the results are displayed.
Plus the results are not the same as google's.
On scroogle I'm the third result while on google the fourth...