Does Google AdSesne have double standard? What do you think? The answer would be yes. A bit surprised? I am.

I noticed this a few months ago and I forgot about this. Last night I was just surfing the web and I saw this. I saw AdSense ads on milw0rm (a site that shares exploits). Last time, I checked it was against AdSense’s policy to put ads on a hacking/cracking related site.

Accounts get closed (and sites even get banned) if they have a bit of hacking/cracking content. No exceptions. You can’t hide. They’ll find out sooner or later. But, why the fuck does milw0rm get to use AdSense (take a look at this screenshot)?

Now this is just crazy. Its a bit unfair, don’t you think? milw0rm has been using AdSense for years now. I’m just mad at AdSense. They treat low-traffic sites like shit and let the popular ones do whatever they want. Oh sorry, I forgot high-traffic sites make them money. So, its okay to bend the rules for them.

So, do they have double standards? Its a rhetorical question. What can we do about it? I don’t know. Contact them if you want.

I’m glad that I’m not using AdSense anymore. Plus its not like you even make a lot of money. Few dollars a day. Who cares. Do you?

Did you notice that Google seems to own everything we use on the web? They are just buying everything off. We still have a few things that are not owned by Google. But, soon it will be under Google. Why though? Why the fuck are they doing this? Why are they trying to control (pretty much) everything?

What they already have

The list below is just a few examples of what Google controls. A shit load of people use these services. Don’t forget the Google search engine itself (the most popular search engine).

1. Feedburner: A site that allows you to promote your RSS, keep track of subscribers, send email subscriptions, etc. This site is used by almost all blogs.
2. YouTube: World’s most popular video sharing site. Everyone knows about it and uses it.
3. Gmail: A free webmail service that is getting popular every day.
4. Google Reader: A RSS reader that is pretty popular and used by a lot of us (including me).

Breaking news guys. Google is trying to buy Digg for $200 million. Digg, the #1 social bookmarking site. Shit!

I think you understand that Google is trying to have a big influence on the web. Trying to own and control everything. Almost trying to make us dependent on it.

What’s the reason behind this?

Why though? Why are they doing this? Is it good or bad for us? Obviously bad because we don’t wanna be puppets of a big corporation. I can’t tell what Google is planning. But I sure can tell what I think they’ll be doing.

What do you have in mind? What do you think they are trying to do? What can WE do about it?

Don’t forget that Google has a lot of privacy issues (my own post here) and its been ranked worst on privacy. Hint, hint!

Man my back hurts as hell. I got jumped by ninjas. Nah I’m just joking. I don’t know why it hurts. Well lets go on a blogging rampage now. Okay so there’s been a big privacy issue. Google is handing over all its YouTube user datas over to Viacom. The user data initially contained IP addresses, usernames and the videos viewed. Now both sides (Google & Viacom) have agreed to anonymize the personally identifiable data.

Well the question is should we use continue to use YouTube. We don’t know what’s coming up next. And why the fuck was Google keeping all these information? Fucking fags. Is there anything called privacy? OMFG! 12 terabytes of user data.

The choice is yours. I personally would now like to stay away from YouTube. And YouTube isn’t even that great. The video quality is “okay”. Like its pretty good but on full screen it sucks ass. So I’m gonna list 5 Great YouTube alternatives (in random order) and you could check them out if you care about your privacy.

1. MEGAVIDEO

This site is like trying to compete with YouTube so bad that they allow you to convert YouTube videos to MEGAVIDEO in a snap. Someone’s desperate, huh? But that’s good for you since you can easily transfer your videos over to them. Video quality isn’t that bad too. I would say that its a bit better than YouTube and the fullscreen has fairly good quality too (unlike YouTube).

2. Veoh

Oh I just love the video quality. Man this video sharing site is like Stage6. But even better because the videos load way faster. Good quality + Fast loading = AWESOME! But there is a problem. Veoh blocked off over 160 countries. So that means Veoh is only good if you don’t care about going globally.

3. Vimeo

This is the site with 100% HD video quality. Check it out. And the site just looks amazing. YouTube looks a bit ugly (to be honest) or at least compared to Vimeo. Hmm I don’t have anything else on this site. Okay I’ll just move on to the next one.

4. Dailymotion

Dailymotion used to be pretty popular but I don’t know why it died. It had the best video quality back then (when video sharing sites were just getting popular) and it still has. Oh the video quality has actually improved a bit more. Nice!

5. Metacafe

Great quality once again. Hmm you know what I noticed? Most video sharing sites have fairly good quality to really good quality video streaming. Well except for YouTube though. Its still got its crappy ass “okay” quality. Metacafe is also known for its hilarious videos.

UPDATE: Few other sites

These are other great video sharing sites that I forgot to mention. Thanks to the readers for telling me about them. I’ll just quickly list them down.

• Break.com – Best for funny videos.
• Viddler.com – Home to some video bloggers.
• blip.tv – No limit on the video size and also shares revenue.

And that’s my list. New video sharing sites are popping up every day and there’s a lot of competition going on. Which one you would choose depends on you (of course). I’m not too sure myself either. I think I would probably choose Vimeo for its awesome quality.

If you know about a great video sharing site then please do tell us about it by dropping a comment. Oh and I forgot to mention that Viacom wanted to sue the users who uploaded and watched copyrighted material personally. Crazy shit, huh?

In this day and age, privacy is quite essential when we browse the internet or check our email. But, do we have any privacy? Google is not only the leading search engine, but also the leader in privacy issues. Am pretty sure most people would not think of Google having a big privacy issue. I’ve explained below why our privacy is in risk when using anything from Google or even when visiting one of their sites.

Unique ID

Google’s cookies are like immortal, they will expire in 2038. When you first go to Google they give you one of their cookies and it acts like a unique ID. For all searches they record the unique cookie ID, your IP address, date and time, your search terms and your browser config. They can access these info anytime they want.

Google’s toolbar is Spyware

Google toolbar is a spyware. Uninstall it immediately! Their toolbar sends out info about all the pages you browse and it is stored under your unique ID. And it reads your cookie too (your passwords, user-names, etc. are stored in cookies). They also stated this in their privacy policy, but didn’t explain all the details and made it look normal.

And their toolbar updates automatically, where Microsoft’s and other ones ask if you would like to update.

Google web accelerator shares info

Google’s web accelerator (not so popular) shares your caches and cookies with other browsers, and they do it to make pages load faster.

Google’s cached-copy of sites is illegal

Judging from Ninth Circuit precedent on the application of U.S. copyright laws to the Internet, Google’s cached-copy of sites appear to be illegal. Everything on your site gets cached! Put a “noarchive” meta on your site, but I don’t think it will prevent your site being cached by Google.

Gmail getting indexed

Each and every email you send and receive gets indexed. Google says that your email could help someone else. (I wouldn’t want my personal info to be on Google search results).

Google helping spammers?

Google helps spammers or they themselves are spamming. People claim that they have searched something on Google and later the content in their spam emails are relevant to what they have searched for earlier.

When New York Times asked Sergey Brin in 2002, that why Google needs these data and he had no comments. I would say use Google at your own risk!