February 5th, 2010

Google Toolbar, you're creeping me out

  • Feb. 5th, 2010 at 12:13 PM
crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
Spontaneously appearing at the top of the browser window during a Google search:

Google would like to have access to your location. The Google Toolbar will periodically use the network to keep your location up to date. Learn more

Buttons on the side invited me to Share my location (in bold) or Don't share (unbolded), with a check box to Remember for this site.

According to RWW, location is hot, but also murky and contested.

I think I'll trust myself to keep my location up to date (at least until I start regularly passing out and waking up in strange beds or foreign cities). And I'll seriously consider Lifehacker's tips for getting Google Toolbar's features without the toolbar.



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