Google Web Accelerator (Bis)
[37Signals] : Google has reintroduced their Google Web Accelerator with a vengeance. It was evil enough the first time around, but this time it’s downright scary.
Randy : There’s one part of Web Accelerator that I’ve always feared and that’s inadvertent clicks by the end-user. Image if you using a Web mailer and you get SPAM. Not hard to image, that’s a large fraction of the Internet users. Those SPAMmers will now put links in your emails that effectively act as a ping, telling them that somebody just read their email. Helping SPAMmers figure out which email accounts are actively read doesn’t sound like a good idea. Now, use your imagination and figure out what else will be done with this security hole.
Coolz0r : Hmm. Damn. That doesn’t look good at all.
Just want to mention amid all the complaints that you’re free to not use Web Accelerator. For those of us on dial-up, on the other hand, Web Accelerator is actually quite handy.
Comment by Anon | October 25, 2005
Dude,
Google Base.
Hit up Ars Technica, as a good place to start.
Comment by Brock | October 25, 2005
Brock, thanks.
Comment by Coolz0r | October 25, 2005