Google madness

[Karl Larsen]

Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> On Sun, 04 May 2008 09:44:49 -0600
> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> wrote:
>
>   
>>     I hope I am not the only one who has a constant internet thing going 
>> to Google. 
>>     
>
> I noticed recently sometihng like that, yes. 
> Often, after loading a website, it tries to connect to
> "google-analytics" or something. Wastes time, and sometimes just hangs
> because that google thing doesn't always respond instantly.
>
>   
>> I killed Google and the Internet stopped being busy.
>> So now I will bring up Google only when I use it.
>>     
>
> Sounds great, but what do you mean by "killing" Google exactly. What
> have you done to stop websites from trying to connect to that
> google-analytics site ? Did you put google-analytics in the "black list"
> of the ad-blocker for example ?
>
> Thanks for sharing your findings ;-)
>
>
> Regards,
>
>
> --
> Vince
>
>   
    Hi Vince, I have not done a thing to fix the problem. What I'm doing 
now is turn off Google except when using it. I was not sure what it was 
calling. I think a note to Google might correct the problem. I will get 
to that today.

Karl


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