Brad Hill reports that Google has reportedly confirmed the privacy concern that GWA enables the displaying of private pages that were cached by another GWA user. This might also better explain why Google has stopped allowing users to download GWA.…
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google has shut down the download page of their new Web Accelerator, explaining “We have currently reached our maximum capacity of users and are actively working to increase the number of users we can support.” Philipp…
Some very scary unintended consequences of using Google Web Accelerator have emerged: GWA’s reliance on caching is already showing serious privacy issues, noteably the caching of private login info. People are finding themselves logged in as someone else on pages…
Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle (a great blog I recently discovered) adds to the growing concerns with GWA, realizing that Google is essentially privatizing the Web through their vast cache of sites: Google has essentially decided to make “an extra copy”…
Google Labs released Google Web Accelerator (GWA) today, software you download to your computer which utilizes Google servers as a proxy for web content, delivering the pages to your system more rapidly and making your browsing experience more efficient. From…
With tools like Google Toolbar, Google Analytics, Web Accelerator, Adsense and Adwords, Google has a variety of means of collecting information about where users browse (with Toolbar & Accelerator, they can track your browsing off of Google properties as well).…
Inside Google provides this report on a growing anti-Google campaign by Dr. Karl-Friedich Lenz, professor at Aoyaman Gakuin University in Tokyo: Citing major reservations about Google related to Autolink and Web Accelerator, Dr. Lenz recently posted a statement, that said…
