Originally Posted By: Notes Norton


Google tracks every site you go to, and every search term you use. Then they sell your information to whoever wants to buy it, legitimate advertisers, spammers, hackers, anyone who has the money.


And there's the difference in people. I don't care. I have spam filters to fix that.

As far as ads after a purchase, if you used Chrome and added an add-on called AdBlock, you wouldn't see those ads.

Do you really believe Firefox doesn't track your browsing habits? Or MSIE? Or Opera? They ALL do it. Every business on the planet is out to make EVERY PENNY they can and nobody cares about you. Or me. Or any person or any thing that doesn't have a picture of a dead president on them.

People are WAY to militant about "my personal information". Most of you have no idea at all how those analytics are used. Knowing that you bought picks from Musician's Friend or Sweetwater is not a pathway to a hacker emptying your bank account. It's just a way to put ads in front of your eyes to try and tempt you to buy something.

What do you so about billboards when you drive around in your car? Do you have some kind of spam blocking windshield or glasses that blanks out the ads for the furniture store or the bail bondsman?

It's just advertising. If it bothers you, don't acknowledge it. Just don't blame your browser. It's a computer. It's a dumb pile of silicon. It doesn't think, or sense, or judge. You are in 100% control of that computer. Basic knowledge of how to use a computer is all that is required to install the proper add-ons to defeat the ads you don't want to see.

Major corporations have gone to Chrome as their default browser. That was not on a whim. In the opinion of the IT directors who make that call, Chrome is the best performing and most manageable browser, and I concur.

Of course, it's up to you.