Why does Scroogle Scraper hate Google so much?

[mettle]

Scroogle

 

[K_W]

Google tracks what you search. Privacy minded people hate that. Which is why Scroogle exists.

 

[Boilers]

I am a big NON-fan of Google's unknown intentions.

 

[mettle]

I use Scroogle as well, as of about 1 week ago.

 

[theweakerbrother]

I've never heard of it. What is wrong with Google again? What are they recording that others aren't?

 

[matthock]

I've never heard of it. What is wrong with Google again? What are they recording that others aren't?

That's why I block them all equally, I don't trust any of them They've all demonstrated that they will do what is necessary to make a buck, even if it means caving on their stated moral stances, as is evidenced by several of them cooperating with China on blocking state-disallowed content and turning over information when the government asks them for it.

Run Firefox with the Adblock Plus extension with two Adblock filters - EasyList and EasyPrivacy (EP isn't one of the defaults, takes a bit more looking to find). Blocks most of the nasty tracking cookies, so that handles the fact that such a high percentage of pages run Google's tracking scripts for their traffic analysis.

 

[Crystalship1]

Someone pass the heavy duty foil please!!!

 

[matthock]

Someone pass the heavy duty foil please!!!

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you

fwiw, it's not like there's someone who's reading through it looking at people's browsing habits. They gather a lot of information, but it's used either in aggregate statistical analysis in which they don't care about specific people but just trends, or if it is using your stuff specifically, it's purely on automated terms to decide what ads to send you. I didn't used to care, but when Google bought Doubleclick a while back and started being able to correlate people's browsing habits with IRL names and addresses, it just kind of creeped me out, hence I started blocking them. I still use Google for searching, I just block the tracking scripts.

 

[Indybeer]

Someone pass the heavy duty foil please!!!

 

[mettle]

My thinking is: if they want my info, they need to request it in writing. I am exercising what control I can, when I learn I need to, to be as discreet and anonymous as possible. My browsing habits are my own business.

Besides, I am sure the N.S.A. has us all covered for sure.

I get equally ticked about my non-controllable credit scrore that someone ELSE can probe, add to or change without my consent. IT'S MINE! I won't get started on that.

 

[rambone]

I'm more frustrated with Google's political leanings. They had a strong hand in putting obama-friendly articles at the top, especially during the election. This has an influence on people doing research for candidates.

 

[TopDog]

Someone pass the heavy duty foil please!!!

Trust who you want.
But because people choose to use a control that is available to them does not mean they are taking exceptional and unrealistic steps to thwat a non-existent threat.
Yeah, just because your paranoid does not mean they are not out to get you.

 

[mettle]

Google also supports anti-gun organizations and many green programs that affect our rights as well.

 

[jennybird]

Google also supports anti-gun organizations and many green programs that affect our rights as well.

Where do you all get this information?

 

[TopDog]

Where do you all get this information?

Google "Google anti gun"

Is Google Anti-Gun? [Archive] - MGO Community Forum

No gun ads allowed at Google

Google's Anti Gun Rights Bias - a sad form of censorship | LearnAboutGuns.com*

etc... Only shows you cant run gun ads. Futher searches turns up nothing to show that Google actually lends financial support to gun control groups.