Gosh Minstrel - you have 49000 results for that search. You really must be drinking heavily to generate that much interest. Is the liquor for you, or those on the couch or does everyone drown their sorrows together?
Everyone says this after reading and agreeing to the TOS and EULA of software these days. Well no one really reads it though. This is my pet peeve. Read the EULA! The software people know you don't! They don't want you too. They have found ways to get you to agree to full access to your computer! MS has stooped to A EULA that does not speak for vendors and requires you to do research to obtail all the conditions of the EULA for WMP and others. The ignorance of the public has caused us all to be exploited. By not reading the EULAs we have agreed this is good business and accepted it as an industry standard. That will be a strong argument in court when folks try to reject it later. We have hurt ourselves by laziness, they counted on it and won. They even sell us more services to make us more complacient in the area as well so we will buy blindly and supply info blindly. There is no longer a "PERSONAL" PC on this planet.
I agree, somewhat with what you've stated noppid, however, in most cases, what are our choices? Accept and use or deny and not use? I think our need to use the software (legitmate need) tends to make the eula acceptable when it otherwise would not be so. Now for those that install some toolbar or some screensaver that also installed spyware, I have no pitty. Installer beware.
Again, they count on the instant gradification desire to make you click yes rather then wait for a viable solution. They have people with PHD's in pshchology come up with this stuff man, it's big, no huge, business. Until we do say no we'll wait, they will contunue to win and keep taking more of your privacy. You gave the exact answer they counted on.
The G toolbar might (theoretically) collect bookmark data, but it doesn't because: 1. If it did and it was in the EULA then we would have heard. I don't read EULAs, you might not, but thankfully (because G is large - meaning "as horrible to some as Microsoft") a lot of people does, if only to find something in it to tell us about. 2. If it did and it wasn't in the EULA then we would have heard. I don't decompile programs, you might not, but thankfully (because G is large - meaning "as horrible to some as Microsoft") a lot of people do, if only to find something to tell us about. ps. It's comments like this that got you my vote earlier today yfs1. LOL