If you run a website or blog, and have been getting searches/referrers by the name of “chromebar”, I think I’ve finally figured out what it is.
It’s the web-based “application” that Stumbleupon use to deliver webpages to users who don’t have the Stumbleupon toolbar installed in their browser.
[via gizmodo.com]
If Google is the Borg, Google Toolbar is the Terminator: just when you think you’ve killed it, it comes right back to murderize the Sarah Connor that is your privacy. What a creepy move.
Ben Edelman ran a few tests with the Google Toolbar, and found that, yes, Google keeps tracking your browsing even after you politely ask it not to. They also make it easy to enable certain tracking features and much more difficult to disable the same.
Edelman also found that Google’s disclosures have gotten worse over time, to the point of being downright duplicitous: