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Milad · #7 03-14-2007, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by syrus.xl

Nice idea - if you want to increase your PR with Alexa - But the Alexa Toolbar is SPYWARE, therefore I can't see why anyone would want to install it.

I have about 5-10 unique visitors a month with Alexa installed, but I certainly don't recommend my members to install it.

It's not spyware, some unti-spyware policies consider the toolbar as a spyware, but actually it's not, because it doesn't do anything out of Alexa Privacy Policy, they say that they gather information about sites you visit anonymously, and they do that.

If you don't accept that policy don't use the toolbar, but it's not spyware.

Spywares gather information but don't tell you that. Alexa Toolbar does.

For example Google gather information, why they don't consider it as a spyware?

This is the fact of crazy policies.

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