Google Web Accelerator considered overzealous
Published by Picturesque on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 at 3:53 PM.
Google has released a new tool that, on the surface, looks great. It makes your DSL connection faster. Yea, right. The only thing this tool does is scour the web in advance serving up old pages when you use it. Not a good thing for news and other sites that are constantly being updated. If you want to see old content, be my guest.
Other issues include ransacking a website by clicking on ALL links, storing password protected pages including sensitive data, and deleting files and data despite warnings from javascript. Definitely not ready to have been released, this tool needs to be fixed or pulled asap. Read more at O'Reilly Radar > Google Web Accelerator considered overzealous
Other issues include ransacking a website by clicking on ALL links, storing password protected pages including sensitive data, and deleting files and data despite warnings from javascript. Definitely not ready to have been released, this tool needs to be fixed or pulled asap. Read more at O'Reilly Radar > Google Web Accelerator considered overzealous
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