“Google would like to have access to your location. The Google Toobar will periodically use the network to keep your location up to date.”
What’s up with this? Good, bad, or indifferent?
It’s great! Don’t you want to “Meet Hot Single Girls!” in your area, wherever you go?
I was hoping it might give me the current local weather so I wouldn’t have to use the Amish barometer.
I’m gonna guess, given the current crowd, that dissin’ the Google Toolbar isn’t gonna go that well.
I just want info. Honest. You know, opinions and such. Like, is what MTGuru mentioned exactly the thing that’s geared toward or at least includes, or can I tailor it? And if that can make for a benefit, is there any point to it or is it really only just more whizzy things to dazzle me into ADD while it tracks me everywhere now that I’ve handed my info over on a silver platter to the Crystal Peopsnk pop
They’ve already got your IP. Want to give them your WiFi geolocation, too?
“Dear Mr. Hedron: Meet Hot Single Girls in your area! In your immediate vicinity, in fact! At the next table, 3 feet to your left. Her name is Brandy, and she’s Hot! Please offer her a lemonade.”
That’s what I’m thinking, basically: No. I wonder how many people take them up on it.
“Officer, ours was simply a fruit transaction.”
The reason VCR beat out Beta is because of the porn industry. Is Chris Hansen with Dateline running out of contestants on “To Catch a Predator”?
There’s an old Irish saying from Bram Stoker: “My friend, I have been to many, many stake-ings, and it all comes down to location, location, location.”
Never use or install anyone’s toolbar.
Tool bars, they serve screwdrivers and rusty nails right?
These days the crowds pretty much wall-to-wall nuts.
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Thanks for the nostalgic shout-out.
[/quote]There you go. Good advice.
Yes. I’m sure it’s good advice. But since Simon didn’t say why, and I like to know why, I’ve Googled around a bit (without a toolbar.)
While I’d like to rewrite this short article employing more imaginative vocab and sentence structure, this’ll have to do for now:
http://getfirefox.org/why-you-should-not-install-toolbars-on-your-computer.html
Here’s another pov:
http://darlingtonreboot.com/node/17
Having seen them in action I would say that, apart from potential privacy issues, I simply don’t need the excess clutter on my browser window. Since I am, more often than not, using a fairly small computer, I dislike having any of the screen space occupied by more frame/less content.
I don’t think they do anything that can’t be done by use of a bookmarks bar or the little search engine window that appears at the top of many browsers anyway.
Yeah, a bit tough to credit declarative statements just on say-so; it looks as good as only an opinion. But OTOH I did ask for those too, didn’t I.
Why, me too! And as a matter of fact, I seem to recall I actually said as much earlier. Apparently that wasn’t fated to work. Really gotta grind on these people some days…
“Toolbars are nothing but an annoyance.”
If that is the distillation of the article, even I could have said that, and with authority of experience. And actually I guess I did already, in a roundabout way. I suppose all the fun has been also a roundabout way of saying there is NO good reason for a toolbar (but WHY is always nice. You know, some of us being thinking folk after our fashion and all that). Good thing a medical emergency didn’t hinge on my getting that sorted out.
I think someone here could create a chiff & fipple toolbar, turn it into a trojan horse kind of thing, and then let folks know how close/how soon the nearest session/nearest purveyor of whistles and such are located, monitor their websurfing/buying habits, and maybe do some subliminal suggestions to buy whistles and join chiff & fipple. I could supply the mwa-ha-ha.