Chrome. Used for work. Nothing cleared, adblock running for one domain. No other privacy stuff.

“Dance & Electronic Music” is right.

If you are logged in to Google, click this to see what it knows about you.

– I just asked the wife to use the same link. It got her interests, age and sex right. I asked her if this mattered to her. Nope. Just me then :)

I was grateful that Google didn’t own Facebook, Twitter, my WordPress site and/or Flickr. All was not lost. I was high fiving myself for having the foresight to switch my blog to WordPress.

via Google Owns Me…And You « Blog Tips « Mama’s Losin’ It!.

So take that original script – it’s in ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Extensions/some-random-sequence/1.0_0/script.js and alter line 14. Mine now says

var css = "ins { background-color: #cfc; font-size: 14px; text-decoration: none;}\n\n  del { background-color: #fcc; font-size: 14px;}";

and I can now read what I need to faster.

Google’s mission is to organize the world‘s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Company Link

Google has expanded its search blacklist to include many of the top file-sharing sites on the Internet, including The Pirate Bay. The changes were quietly processed and appear to be broader than previous additions. Google’s blacklist prevents the names of sites appearing in their Instant and Autocomplete search services, while the pages themselves remain indexed. TorrentFreak

Google knows best though. Oh yes.

So Google stops you seeing their stuff but they’ll suck up every damn thing you ever put on the net – or someone puts about you – and they’ll never ever delete it. But hey, it’s Google and we all love them to fuzzy little bits don’t we.

The National Security Agency will get to keep secret documents that may, or may not, show a working relationship with Google.
via McClatchy blog: Suits & Sentences.

Google is not part on the internet’s solution. It is part of the problem.