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2009-11-09 , 21:20
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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
The point is that Google doesn't only collect your data when you use Google services. They also collect your data when you don't use Google services (through Google Analytics and Adsense)... and this happens without people knowing. (I never saw I website that told me on the front page "We're using Google Analytics. Click to proceed only if your comfortable with that.")
That should be something that you can find out from using the browsers built in 'view source'. Maybe someone could make a firefox addon that warns people when it finds that a website is using Analytics. Although, that would still not help the people who have not been warned or are not aware of it.