[BlowFish]

I seem to have it in my head they (google) had a similar (but less draconian clause) with Gmail. I also seem to remember you could opt out if you could find the appropriate page. I don't think there is anything sinister going on, its all about targeted advertising.

In the UK BT have just conducted a trial with a company whose name escapes me, that monitors all browsing at the ISP level with a view to targeting advertising.

Personally I don't mind well targeted advertising too much provided its simple to ignore.

[micro]

Originally Posted by BlowFish »

In the UK BT have just conducted a trial with a company whose name escapes me, that monitors all browsing at the ISP level with a view to targeting advertising.

http://www.phorm.com/

[Kiwi]

An interesting change (perhaps promoted by Chrome) is that Firefox has really sped up its javascript handling in the latest betas.

I'm using the nightly releases (live dangerously) and they have become really fast to render complex javascript containing pages. Surprisingly so. The reason is apparently something called TraceMonkey:

" About TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey adds native code compilation to Mozilla’s JavaScript engine (known as SpiderMonkey). It is based on a technique developed at UC Irvine called “trace trees“, and building on code and ideas shared with the Tamarin Tracing project. The net result is a massive speed increase both in the browser chrome and web page content.

Playing with TraceMonkey

TraceMonkey is currently available and enabled by default for testing in nightly builds. If you want to modify the types of JavaScript that are executed using TraceMonkey: "