whyme
May 15 2005, 04:41 AM
Albeit another topic on Google Web Accelerator has been made, this topic addresses another different security concern. This is on the security concern on how Google Web Accelerator operates. While your internet connection isn't going any faster, the "illusion" of faster loading pages is caused by Google prefeching the pages and links, *before* you visit them. Therefore, all the pages have been downloaded into your hard drive. Which brings up the following problem: Since Google Web Accl. prefetches ALL links on a page, if the page had a link like: "cancel my account", or "delete this picture", Google Web Accl. would have already "clicked" that link, via prefecthing it. Additionally, it also by passes the javascript warnings that pop up when you click such buttons. As of now, Google has stopped letting people download the Google Web Accl. Apparently, Google says that QUOTE We have currently reached our
maximum capacity of users and
are actively working to increase
the number of users we can support.
Whereas this does not make any sense, because Google's servers aren't doing any of the work, your internet connection is.  So now, this just adds one more worry on using Google Web Accl. First, your privacy, second, the fear if Google blowing up your online account by accidentally clicking some sort of "delete me" link. If you're still using Google Web Accl., think if it's worth jepoardizing your online experience. -whyme
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Florisjuh
May 15 2005, 07:22 AM
Yup I'm affraid even google passed the line of "oversized evil company's" now... Still they got a lot of cool things, and google web accelrator was just a bad pick. So, are tthe prefeched downloads taking in space on your harddrive, and will they always be fetched until you decide to delete them by hand? That would mean you might be walking arround with 5 percent of the internet on your pc :s
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Dawid
May 15 2005, 08:08 AM
Thanks for letting us know about that. I've never really believed in any web accelerator but never realised that it could do something like that. I use PHP-Nuke and the whole admin panel is webbased so something like google web accelerator could absolutely reak havok with my website. Just wondering if there are any web accelerators out there worth having, I don't believe in them at all but you never know- maybe somebody has had some success with certain ones. I remember these web accelerators being huge before broad band. Every house you'd go to there would always be a little icon in the system tray of a web accelerator.
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Guest
May 15 2005, 10:15 PM
QUOTE(Florisjuh @ May 15 2005, 07:22 AM) So, are tthe prefeched downloads taking in space on your harddrive, and will they always be fetched until you decide to delete them by hand? That would mean you might be walking arround with 5 percent of the internet on your pc :s Yes, they are continually prefecthed and sotred on your harddrive until you delete them. Therefore raising a security concern. Dawid, regarding your question, I don't really think that there's anything worth downloading, the best bet is to "hack" the FireFox web broswer, and you can speed up your browsing experience considerably. Read more about it here -> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1299854/posts
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twentyinches631
May 15 2005, 10:44 PM
That's pretty scary. Especially since everyone would download it thinking, hey its from google it must be good. I don't really see the point in those web accelerator programs. Wouldn't it slow down the initial loading of the website anyway?
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whyme
May 16 2005, 03:53 AM
It doesn't slow down the loading, and doesn't increase the connection speed either, all that it's doing is preloading all the links on a page so that it gives the illusion of a faster connection.
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Dooga
May 16 2005, 04:47 AM
It also caches your cookies for people's "convenience" but you end up giving your admin sessions, your email sessions and forum sessions to another user! Apparently, google accelerator is STILL downloadable, as the file is still on the server. You just have to know what name it is. However, I am not at liberty to reveal the link.
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karlo
May 16 2005, 07:31 AM
I think Google Web Accelerator heard the *dial-up* users of the internet, that's why they are going to implement "Image Compression" for Google Web Accelerator. What do you think? Because right nnow, Google Web Accelerator (GWA) is only for broadband users.
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hayri
May 16 2005, 01:54 PM
And I have read that they had problems with some Forums like IPB and vBulletin because when you are opening it you aren't your normal user, instead of this you are an other user
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Odyssey
May 18 2005, 01:02 AM
Interesting problem, but it also makes sense beucause that was a possibility of happening. I will wait untinl Google fixes theese problems.
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kawasu
Jul 9 2006, 09:21 AM
i switched to broadband long ago... i never had problems with web page loading or dling. even when i was on dial-up i never used web accelerators i just didnt see the need. i got used to slow loading pages and every1 catered for them at the time. when i hit broadband i even stopped using download accelerators excaept for maybe once or twice where the files i was downloading were over a gig. i'm glad i never tried web accelerators, they've always seemed a bit dodgy to me, and they still do. i just dont like the idea of preloading data onto computers.
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codederek
Jun 21 2006, 12:33 AM
wow thats scary to know, and to think that I trusted google... I can see why they stopped letting people download because this is really going to look bad on their reputation.
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Shadowshark
Jun 20 2006, 10:19 PM
i herd about that from anohter forums site although i would never need the exselerator with cable its good to know the facts
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Society
Jun 20 2006, 09:59 PM
Ok, a little tip about Google Web Accelerator. It logs every site you visit and every link you click and submits it to google to 'better their service'. They put it right in the ToS. Its basicly spyware that you download onto your computer knowingly. They bundled it with a cheap freebie program thats availible everywhere (fasterfox for firefox) and put in some good ol data miners. Its a tracking cookie that takes up your RAM and sits on your toolbar. Your best bet is to delete it and not support that kind of data collection. Its very low of a huge company like google to exploit the average internet user by offering them something that sounds great (faster internet) when really your just collecting the web sites they go to. Google Web Accelertor = Spyware Scrap it. -Society-
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aminzzlink
Jun 20 2006, 12:39 PM
i used to use google Acc. but not for a long time you know when you havn't enough RAM , for examle like me , i have 128 , you just think how to acc your pc not the connection , and the gg Acc eat the ram ans save a 01 sec so i don't need !
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