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Originally Posted by zima
Basically, you WILL be tracked during your voyages on the www no matter what these days, unless you're using something like Tor, which will give you a performance hit (that's the price of anonymity...).
Anyway, term "spyware" is essentially for things that not only track you, but are not upfront in how they're using this info (Google is); and also, things that install not exactly with your permission on your machine/slow it down.
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True that Internet users are being tracked by various companies, but I hate to be tracked by a single powerful company that has very good search technologies.
If fact, AdSense is worse than a "spyware," because it gives you the impression of something else (serving ads), yet the side effect is mornitoring.
(Imaging Google gets all the web logs of 90% of Intenet web sites.)
That's the protential danger. Think about it.