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Old 2005-05-06, 04:34 PM   #11
airdick
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Verbal
and this: http://www.somethingawful.com/articles.php?a=2858


Google is essentially creating a copy of the world wide web and serving it "faster" from their servers. Aside from the huge privacy issues (Google seeing/storing everything you see online), GWA has also been breaking things like forums and letting people login as someone else.

You can block GWA, by banning the IP address ranges:
72.14.192.0 – 72.14.192.255

AOL has a ton of caching proxy servers, and a few of the larger European ISPs also run big caches. Cache is pretty much a good thing, I would much rather have Google, AOL, or some other ISP serve up my content to their customers than to be using my own bandwidth.
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