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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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sara: S (Default)
[personal profile] sara wrote:
Feb. 5th, 2010 06:27 pm (UTC)
Yeah, all the location-targeted ad stuff I get is...for Portland. Which is a nice thought, but no, I'm not going to drive 120 miles to use a 10% off pizza coupon.
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crypto: Amy Pond (Default)
[personal profile] crypto wrote:
Feb. 5th, 2010 08:46 pm (UTC)
That's kind of a relief, or kind of troubling, viz. surveillance society.
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sara: S (Default)
[personal profile] sara wrote:
Feb. 5th, 2010 08:53 pm (UTC)
Well, I live in a town where it's still pretty normal for businesses not to have web sites; I think we're a good half-decade or so from targeted online marketing actually working, locally....
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