Comments on: Why Search is the Biggest Online Privacy Risk http://www.privacysoftware.org/why-search-is-the-biggest-online-privacy-risk/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 01:21:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Jack http://www.privacysoftware.org/why-search-is-the-biggest-online-privacy-risk/#comment-4 Jack Sun, 14 Sep 2008 12:12:14 +0000 http://www.privacysoftware.org/?p=4#comment-4 I doubt the public can count on Yahoo to protect privacy. Yahoo is one of, if not the, world's worst proliferator of spyware. Back in the day when telephone companies wanted to become ISP's, they turned to Yahoo, and Yahoo turned them into giant data vacuums gathering every micro-scrap of information possible (and then some) on their very own customers. They still do this today, only with even greater abandon, selling it all to whomever has a buck or two. They also force their own customers to "opt-out" of data-gathering each time they sign onto Yahoo (oh yeah, unless you leave their cookies in place, which does the same thing only differently. You might as well leave your house unlocked each day you go to work). And even finding the opt-out page is major time-waster. No, you definitely can not trust Yahoo with your life, let alone your privacy. They're like the Chinese Communist Party of the Internet, absolutely vacant of morals as long as there is money to be made, any money from any source. One of the great - and most sickening - hypocrisies of our time is Yahoo's technical help pages, which go to some length pretending to offer assistance on privacy, while they stab you in the back literally as you read the stuff. Reminds me of the Democraps. Hey, maybe that's why they are so supportive of the Dems and write such liberal pieces posing as "news." Birds of a Feather, right? I doubt the public can count on Yahoo to protect privacy. Yahoo is one of, if not the, world’s worst proliferator of spyware. Back in the day when telephone companies wanted to become ISP’s, they turned to Yahoo, and Yahoo turned them into giant data vacuums gathering every micro-scrap of information possible (and then some) on their very own customers. They still do this today, only with even greater abandon, selling it all to whomever has a buck or two. They also force their own customers to “opt-out” of data-gathering each time they sign onto Yahoo (oh yeah, unless you leave their cookies in place, which does the same thing only differently. You might as well leave your house unlocked each day you go to work). And even finding the opt-out page is major time-waster.

No, you definitely can not trust Yahoo with your life, let alone your privacy. They’re like the Chinese Communist Party of the Internet, absolutely vacant of morals as long as there is money to be made, any money from any source. One of the great - and most sickening - hypocrisies of our time is Yahoo’s technical help pages, which go to some length pretending to offer assistance on privacy, while they stab you in the back literally as you read the stuff. Reminds me of the Democraps. Hey, maybe that’s why they are so supportive of the Dems and write such liberal pieces posing as “news.” Birds of a Feather, right?

]]> By: John http://www.privacysoftware.org/why-search-is-the-biggest-online-privacy-risk/#comment-2 John Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:06:19 +0000 http://www.privacysoftware.org/?p=4#comment-2 Google is the only company who held out on that big data grab by the US government, and even they were forced to turn over some search data. If a search company vowed not to store user data and worked that into their marketing I bet they could gain some serious marketshare. But who will do it? Not AOL, Yahoo maybe? Google is the only company who held out on that big data grab by the US government, and even they were forced to turn over some search data.

If a search company vowed not to store user data and worked that into their marketing I bet they could gain some serious marketshare. But who will do it? Not AOL, Yahoo maybe?

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