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join:2004-01-18
Loxahatchee, FL | logged into websites as someone else That sucks! I guess I will be uninstalling it. | |
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rtcpenguin
Premium
join:2001-01-21
Fairfax, VA
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| Re: logged into websites as someone else It seems like Google's new master plan is to harvest all of your information--email history, search history, and now browsing history.
Guess that information is a lot more valuable to google than I thought.
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storm64007
Premium
join:2001-05-21
Freeport, NY
2 edits | Re: logged into websites as someone else I installed it yesterday to test out and out of curiosity.
I really saw no considerable difference in speed 0n my 3 Mb down/768 upload dsl speed. The counter said i gained a 1 second speed increase on a page visit..lol.
I uninstalled it after about a 2 hour use yesterday out of privacy concerns and it certainly was not worth the one second speed increase  | |
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join:2001-09-07
Bismarck, ND | Re: logged into websites as someone else Ditto | |
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Nerdtalker
Working Hard, Or Hardly Working?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-02-18
Tucson, AZ
clubs:
| said by rtcpenguin  :It seems like Google's new master plan is to harvest all of your information--email history, search history, and now browsing history. I was leery of this thing the second I got wind of it.
This has confirmed my suspicions. Google is beginning to worry me.
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iPod Shuffle=iPos
I'm testing Gmail's spam filters: Broadbandreports1@gmail.com
Spam: 6200+ | |
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voiplover
Premium
join:2004-05-28
Portsmouth, NH | I wonder if it will help me grow hair too!  | |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
Premium
join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
clubs:
| Re: logged into websites as someone else said by voiplover :I wonder if it will help me grow hair too! Only if you want to sprout it on your palms. | |
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larytet
join:2004-11-26
Unity, ME | ~10% saving in my case does not worth 10M of RAM it takes. and it is closed sourced. i am sorry i installed it. +it actually SLOWS down the access when you fecth the page first time. and difference is meaningful, like 2-3 times. | |
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larytet
join:2004-11-26
Unity, ME | Re: logged into websites as someone else uninstall failed. i guess i have to check my registry file who knows what they keep there | |
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anon11213
@rlgh.wacdc01r | Advertising replacement Perhaps they intend to provide an "advertising replacement" service where it recognizes banner ads and replaces them with one from its subscribers? | |
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rid0617
join:2003-07-20
Greer, SC | Goodbye It's gone off mine. I don't need that second faster that bad | |
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Fatal Vector
@aol.com | Re: Goodbye
But we still got the data while you were using it. Thanks! | |
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P2PPirate2
join:2005-02-02
New York, NY | Keep track of surfing I heard somewhere that if you do alot of P2P, stay away from it because it will keep your log. | |
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA
| Re: Keep track of surfing said by P2PPirate2 :I heard somewhere that if you do alot of P2P, stay away from it because it will keep your log. Any refrences..?
Though I did notice that for some reason my emule speeds are up. Most probably totally unrelated to the google thingy... | |
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sivran
Long Live The Suite
Premium
join:2003-09-15
Arlington, TX
clubs: | bullshit. It's an http proxy. | |
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA | Re: can web admins choose to prevent use? I believe so, but only by blocking the proxy's IP addresses. | |
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pcscdma
Chocobo Chocobo Random Battle
Premium
join:2004-01-14
Winterset, IA
clubs:
| Web admins should use the no-cache HTTP header to prevent pages that shouldn't be cached from being cached. Any self-respecting proxy should follow this. A shift-reload (or equivalent) should force a page reload. Some proxys don't follow this.
The Pragma thing doesn't work on it's own. A web server needs to know how to pass it along to the HTTP headers. Some hosting providers don't do this.
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roady1
join:2003-11-13
Cleveland, OH | it matters? I use it at work...saved the company all of 41.2 seconds so far...who cares...lol | |
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA
| Re: it matters? said by roady1 :I use it at work...saved the company all of 41.2 seconds so far...who cares...lol I've saved 1 min 37 sec today. Guess I can extend my lunch break by that much... | |
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Jack Flash
join:2005-04-28
Saint Michael, MN |  Ditto..
I hesitated when I read the EULA. Basically it says it WILL collect personal information about you.
Gone Now! | |
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| Brisk
Qwest's Spirit Of Service Inaction
join:2003-07-11
Colorado Springs, CO
clubs:
 ·Qwest.net
| Re: Ditto.. I beat you. I had it installed 33 minutes, and it saved me... 0.6 second(s) over 77 pages on my 256k DSL. And the minute and 45 seconds of my life I spent installing it, I will never get back. Nor will I get back the one and a half minutes I spent typing this up.
Thank you for bringing up the irony of the space-time & life continuum, Google. | |
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barky
Premium
join:2001-03-17
San Diego, CA
1 edit |  BSOD
To all those with privacy concerns of caching your logged-in info, go into your preferences and add all relevant sites to the "do not use" list. If they record all pages visited, well, theres not much you can do there. | |
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Premium,MVM
join:2000-05-04
not in ohio
·Verizon Online DSL
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| Re: BSOD 1) The google stuff is user mode, should be no way it can crash the OS. It's a kernel bug if the OS crashes.
2) 'IRQL not less or equal' is not related in any way to a divide-by-zero error. It's kernel software doing something that can't be done at such a high IRQL (=kernel synchronization level). | |
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Sid
Premium
join:2002-11-29
Santa Maria, CA
| No difference & wasnt working properly with Opera Only noticed about a second of time saving here as well. At times using opera, the web pages didnt load completely. I ditched it to after a couple hours of use. Simply no need.
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glenel
join:2004-12-29
Pointe-Claire, QC
clubs:
·Bell Sympatico
| Google sucks your speed away! I regularly run speed tests on Friday afternoons, the start of the busy period in my area. Hmmmm - down to 3821kbps, but not too bad for a Friday. Downloaded and installed Google Web Accelerator - download now at 2100kbps! What gives? - I can only guess that it works like any other accelerator, i.e. APPARENT faster opening of web pages through the use of a cache. I uninstalled the Web Accelerator and am back up around 4000kbps.
Needless to say, this device is nought but eyewash.
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Pierrefonds, QC | |
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Wooooo
@ca.us
| Works, usually. Mine just stopped working right now, complaining about proxy server.
Sites that take forever to load like worldofwarcraft.com do load faster.
The privacy concern for me is nil, since all of the sites I visit don't simply use sessions alone, if at all.
If you get a BSoD, it's probably due to faulty network drivers. I saw the same problem with the Netgear FA311 under windows XP when running WoW - never crashed before. Lo and behold, that card isnt even supposed to be used on xp. | |
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Viper007Bond
Premium
join:2002-09-26
Portland, OR
| Bah! It really is working for me...
Load Time for 1617 Pages
Without Google Web Accelerator: 4.8 hrs
With Google Web Accelerator: 4.2 hrs
Total Time Saved: 34.3 mins ... but ugh @ the security concerns. I think I'll keep using it though and just disable it for forums and such.
I think the problem only occurs if you're logging in and/or dealing with sessions. Please, it feels weird or like I'm wasting bandwidth now if I don't use it. lol
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click_310
Eat my shorts
join:2002-12-06
Savannah, GA
| Re: Bah! said by Viper007Bond :Please, it feels weird or like I'm wasting bandwidth now if I don't use it. lol Hmmm.. the words XX.X seconds saved makes me feel better while slacking off on the job.  | |
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saluki1
join:2005-03-20
Philadelphia, PA | google accelerator As soon as I installed the Google accelerator, I could no longer access Gmail--Kept saying invalid password at the login.
As, soon as I uninstalled it I was able to access my email with those very same passwords. A little scary. | |
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remusrm
join:2003-04-07
Northridge, CA | none i did try it and i did not see much improvement on the t1 line i got at work and nothing on my house. 3mb/down, 512k up. also after removing it firefox did not lunch anymore. had to reinstall it... | |
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Titus Pullo
I came, I saw, I slept
join:2004-06-26 | Question: Who's your daddy?
GOOGLE
by the time someone installs this POS, desktop search, and a Gmail account, you're basically Google's bitch! | |
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sayers
join:2003-01-11
Dexter, MO | Hmm... This also sets up a proxy server in Internet Explorer. What crap. | |
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EliteTimeWas
join:2004-02-19
Zephyrhills, FL | Google: Supplementing the CIA since 1998 You know how all those kids say "I liked _____ Band before all the other kids!"
Well I think the new thing is going to be:
"I liked Google before they released 12,182 applications that track my every aspect of life." | |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ
| What? Does this mean that if I login somewhere with the google accelerator on, that someone else could login as me without me even doing anything?
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andyb
Premium
join:2003-05-29
SW Ontario | Re: What? yes if they go the same place you did(forum for example)they could use your id because it was cached by the proxy.this only would work really on unsecure forums etc where they dont take precautions | |
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Rob A
Same Old Jets
Premium
join:2005-01-17
Pompton Plains, NJ
1 edit | Re: What? So I'm safe here at BBR? | |
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old dog
@ny.frontier
| Er, ah, oh, dial up works great Win xp sp2 box, never crashes except with nero updates
On dialup it has been installed for 2 days, has not crashed or hung. Initial page load is much smother from overloaded web sites.
Returns to same web site go from nothing to much faster.
This is on a really bad 21k dialup line
For some dialup users who have trouble getting some pages to load on a bad dialup line, This program may solve all your problems
On the spyware bit. All I can say is google has a better rep than most, that said.
How would you change the program keeping in minds its purpose . | |
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hensepens
join:2001-08-02
2131 XA
| We want to inform you that.... "we will log everything and will be send to google."
Well, the statement was a bit different, but when I read this i didn't even finish the installation.
I agree with earlier posts, Google starts to begin to look like big brother. There is however one difference. We have the choice to use Google-tools or not.
In this case, not. | |
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JMarcS
@67.188.x.x
| Re: We want to inform you that.... Installed it for 10 min. Did an Ethereal TCP/IP trace.
The 'tool' started to resolve a bunch of random dns names for no reason, basically mapping the hosts & ips in my company while uploading 'stuff' to a google ip... shut off the progrm and the dns mapping stopped.... scary..
I really think some of the G. tools are great but not this one...
Pass the word.. don't use the G web accelerator at work | |
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Haha!
