AOL sells out it's paying members

AOL gladly gave up all information to the government about every one of it's paying members without a court order, consent, or any legal reason to do it. Their database contained every search by the user.

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?ex=1184130000&en=df89ffd4af05783e&ei=5087&excamp=mkt_at9

Originally posted by arrakis
AOL gladly gave up all information to the government about every one of it's paying members without a court order, consent, or any legal reason to do it. Their database contained every search by the user.

A Face Is Exposed for AOL Searcher No. 4417749

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/09/technology/09aol.html?ex=1184130000&en=df89ffd4af05783e&ei=5087&excamp=mkt_at9

How many people here use AOL?

Originally posted by arrakis
How many people here use AOL?

"Most people have the internet, others have AOL" says my teenage son, when taunting my friend who AOL uses.

Go into a search engine and type “suing data miners” or the name of the search engine you are using.
Its called positive feedback (they’re lovin it) and these companies use your search criteria for their future actions or for plain old cash.
If for every legitimate action you perform 10 silly ones, they will soon become stuffed (try extracting data from that).

I don’t use AOL myself.

Originally posted by Woodgie
Go into a search engine and type “suing data miners” or the name of the search engine you are using.
Its called positive feedback (they’re lovin it) and these companies use your search criteria for their future actions or for plain old cash.
If for every legitimate action you perform 10 silly ones, they will soon become stuffed (try extracting data from that).

I don’t use AOL myself.

Originally posted by sonhouse
Anyone with half a brain could figure AOL sucks by the way you always see those stupid CD's everywhere on grocery shelves and in books and magazines, FREE AOL FOR (variable 🙄 1455 hours FREE! Just give us you credit card #. Yeah. Sure. I'll do that right away......

I've heard that it gets its claws into your registry and won't let go. One way to get rid is to use a program called ISP unbrand.

http://windowsxp.mvps.org/ie/ispunbrand.htm

My ISP, Talktalk has bought up AOL UK - [supposedly they have merged] but I'm hoping it won't affect me. I used AOL for a short while several years ago - it wasn't too bad then.