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May 09, 2005
Web Acceleration: Part 3
Google's Web Accelerator has definitely come under fire since its beta release. If you have any doubts then just check out a totally paranoid view [nyud.net] of "Big Brother's" influence or a more technical breakdown [blogspot.com] of it's implementation. The only way I found out about these was because one of the sites I regularly visit [mini-itx.com] had blocked access with this message:
Access to this site is blocked to the Google Web Accelerator due to many serious privacy, site logging and bandwidth concerns.To view the site, select the "Don't accelerate this website" menu option now, or switch off the software altogether.
There are many good reasons to do this. You will find lots of reasons here, and more from a web publisher's point of view here.Once you are done, please click "Back" in your browser and everything will work perfectly.
The latter article was very informative and presented everything in a fairly in-depth and objective manner. The former article was (as I stated earlier) very paranoid. Their relation of Google to the NSA was utterly obsessive, the association may not be totally unfounded since anyone with a high enough clearance will most likeliy work with the NSA one day of their careers.
Either way, I think the general public really has more trust in government agencies than sites like this give them credit for.
Posted by Guy at May 9, 2005 08:19 PM