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When Google started, they listed their company motto as “Do No Evil” and described it as being streamlined and the opposite of Big Brother like most other tech companies were doing. They are easily the worlds largest presence online with access/control over at least 1/4 of planetary email traffic.
Slowly over the past few years, they’ve gotten bloated and sneaked away from that. They launched Gmail which allows a program to scan/read your email and instantly provide relevant advertisements on the side. They claim it doesn’t track, but anyone with a 5 cents of intelligence knows that we only have their word about it never being read by humans, generally we believe Google because we all like them… however, the law in California requires data retention on all servers for a certain amount of time in case they need to investigate… usually 2 years.
Last year, Google bought doubleclick.com, which is so deep into big-brother they’ve had lawsuits about it. If you use scriptblockers then you see doubleclick all the time in the warnings. They track your machines usage all over the internet and are the single largest internet marketing firm in the world. Not just click-adverts, but they sell the info to everyone from marketing firms to universities to local and foreign governments. And its legal. And now Google is in charge with a public statement they wouldn’t change a thing about the company.
So what happened now? Google has officially crossed the line into big-brotherhood. They sent a message stating that Google AdSense adverts would now be tracking all users by individually identifiable means. Not just the normal ‘Joesmith.com users click a lot of porn sites’ …. nope, this time they’re collecting that machine 00-43-12-f4-aa-1a named Harris Family and user account Jenny Harris (because some people are retarded enough to use real names in computer accounts) visits horsedong.com and further clicked on bestiality adverts.
Yuppers, they’re now collecting everything. The notice they sent out was much more sublimely worded but the above is completely true. The only reason they sent the notice (which they usually dont) is because it legally affects the privacy policy of everyones sites that display Gogle AdSense advirts. I can no longer say that “no personally identifiable or tracking information is collected”.. because now, it is as long as I use Google AdSense.
Please see the updated site policy and etcetra in the above links.
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I might as well. I get a crapload of visitors but no-one ever clicks on them. I only get a few centavos when theres a click/. Amazon, on the other hand, only pays a percentage of sales as well ad Brigade quartermasters. Adsense is the easiest because its simply a click-thru.
I took a look at all the Filipino sites with click-thru adverts and those companies are almost 100% frauds. They post tiny money to accounts then… no more. But people want to keep the adverts on their page because of the initial results. I mean, how else could they make a few dollars a month?/… in the first few months?…. surely people are clicking….
yea, right.
Looks like Adsense is going the same way. I’ leaving them up for now but I did a few self-clicks from other IP’s and they didnt show up. I’m thinking its loosing credibility.
Mar 16, 2009 at 12:24 PM