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"If you actually read the T&Cs you will see that by using their product"
Well if you want to call googles spyware scripts a "Product" then that is up to you but i should not have to run tons of code to opt out of running these scripts because Google forces everyone to put them on their sites or face being religated to page 50 of any search results.
I signed nothing and i don't have ten hours to read T&C for every site i use but I do have EU laws protecting my rights plus human rights and they contridict many T&C and this puts Google in court ever other week.
Will not say here but do you know about the new changes Google is trying to introduce in the US ?
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Dr Gadgit wrote: I signed nothing
It makes no difference. And the more people shout against it the more likely it is that all this free software that we rely on will change to being chargeable. Then you will have to sign an agreement and be billed for your usage.
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Google needs us more than we need them and they are charging sites, far too much and even says just how we needed to devlope pages to get a good rating and then changing the rules.
SEO is easy, just pay google, JD
Do you think that the billion or so people that run add-block type software should be treated as criminals for getting something for free ?
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Dr Gadgit wrote: Do you think that the billion or so people that run add-block type software should be treated as criminals for getting something for free ?
No, and I never suggested they should. I was merely talking about terms of use.
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Richard we are never going to agree on this one but know its nothing personal with Google and Me bacause I have just the same views towards all the other big american software giants.
Comes from reading the scripts in web pages and watching my firewall logs far to much 
I will let you have the last say
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GOOGLE.COM (US) has the same doodle.
Dave.
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Maybe there's some conditional stuff happening for displaying the doodles, depending on the requested domain and origin of the request.. For me it only showed for google.de.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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Actually, I could see the same doodle using both GOOGLE.COM and GOOGLE.DE. I don't know if addressing GOOGLE.DE causes the request to be re-directed to GOOGLE.COM, but whatever, I saw the same doodle.
Dave.
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I've asked a question (about 3 weeks ago) about Roslyn and types and so...
I've actually came up with a solution (mixed not only Roslyn) and I think to write a tip about it - it will be right to post the link to that tip as an answer to my own question?
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If it solves the problem, then yes - it's a genuine solution which can help someone else with a similar problem. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I think that it is a very esoteric problem, and only idiots (freaks?) like me and my team-mates will face such problem ever, but my solution actually solves the problem - we already use it ...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Then preserve it for posterity!
It may be esoteric, but you met it - so it's quite likely that there is someone else out there struggling, or will be.
OK, it's not going to be a vote winner; it's never going to be popular. But how much work would it have saved you if you had found it 3 weeks ago? It's only takes one poor sod to make it all worthwhile!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: It's only takes one poor sod to make it all worthwhile!
Good point!
(I meant to write the tip in any case as I think that there is a nice usage of Roslyn in it, even the original problem is a bit awkward...I actualy wanted to know if it is all right to post it as an answer to myself...And I promise not to upvote it )
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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OriginalGriff wrote: and your account will be banned
Damn! And I thought to catch up with your million!!! 
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: it will be right to post the link to that tip as an answer to my own question?
Yes.
«To kill an error's as good a service, sometimes better than, establishing new truth or fact.» Charles Darwin in "Prospero's Precepts"
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I've just moved to a new house...That house is in the middle of a forest and there is no land-line there, so I'm connecting internet using cellular modem driven by a SIM card...
That card has fixed-size browsing package (of 20GB for now) with a bit slower connection speed (it highly depends on the weather )...
So now (after some 10 years) I have to watch my steps when going online...
I found that is a bit hard to me, but on the other side I've done more work in one evening than I've done in 2-3 days before...
So - it is an interesting experience - no outcome yet...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Now, that was silly, wasn't it?
"I don't care how many damn bedrooms it has! What's the broadband like?"
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: Now, that was silly, wasn't it?
Actually I think not...
The kids have a great time - we have horses to ride and forest to explore...
I'm not even sure if it's wrong that I'm less online (of course I have less time to answer QA and I may loose my MVP, but on the other hand I have more time to write articles...)
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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And soon the kids will want to share your bandwidth...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Haha, share? Take is more like it 
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I didn't want to scare him!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Get an iPhone and a cat and his upload speed is ruined too
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OriginalGriff wrote: I didn't want to scare him!
You didn't...
Actually internet is not a medium my kids care for, not too much even for the phone (and they have a free line to use)...They grew up without TV and a big dosage of classic libraries...The only usage of computer they know of is to watch DVD (loaned from that library) and write homework (including a bit of Google search)...
If there is a choice to go out or watch a movie they will go out even in rain...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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You can make things better buy using good anti-spyware software and also by running your own DNS-Server to speed things up.
Even the Tor network can be made to work at a decent speed if you do lots of blocking and maybe some caching using a proxy server
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