how to prevent Google autoLink?

I Need Help! wrote:
 > Anyone know how to prevent Google autoLink?

Uninstall the Toolbar - ok, I know, that isn't what you meant.

Is this another 'SmartTags' episode looming? Tough if you sell books
online, your visitors now get a direct link to the book on Amazon.
What's next? All sites displaying info about email services get links
to ... where? gMail? We live in interesting times :/

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In article <37kkl0F5cveogU2 RemoveThis @individual.net>,
William Tasso <SpamBlocked RemoveThis @tbData.com> wrote:

 > I Need Help! wrote:
  > > Anyone know how to prevent Google autoLink?
 >
 > Uninstall the Toolbar - ok, I know, that isn't what you meant.
 >
 > Is this another 'SmartTags' episode looming? Tough if you sell books
 > online, your visitors now get a direct link to the book on Amazon.
 > What's next? All sites displaying info about email services get links
 > to ... where? gMail? We live in interesting times :/

I'm no expert, not even a fair amateur, but won't someone be able to use
some sort of utility to detect google and subvert their linking. Can't
imagine they'd be happy to have your site generate a pop-up with
something like "Don't be fooled by where google is taking you" that
covers the page they link too. Or somehow parses the code right back to
your site.

Where are the hackers when you need them.

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I would uninstall the toolbar.
That's what I did and replaced it with msn's toolbar
The main thing google's toolbar was any good for was pr, but even that doesn't seem to have much meaning anymore
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I'd uninstall ALL toolbars... never found one to be useful - just wasting
screen real estate...

Chris

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 > "phd_failure" wrote:
  > > In article <37kkl0F5cveogU2 RemoveThis @individual.net>,
  > > William Tasso <SpamBlocked RemoveThis @tbData.com> wrote:
  > >
   > > > I Need Help! wrote:
  > >  > > Anyone know how to prevent Google autoLink?
   > > >
   > > > Uninstall the Toolbar - ok, I know, that isn't what you
  > > meant.
   > > >
   > > > Is this another 'SmartTags' episode looming? Tough if you
  > > sell books
   > > > online, your visitors now get a direct link to the book on
  > > Amazon.
   > > > What's next? All sites displaying info about email services
  > > get links
   > > > to ... where? gMail? We live in interesting times :/
  > >
  > > I'm no expert, not even a fair amateur, but won't someone be
  > > able to use
  > > some sort of utility to detect google and subvert their
  > > linking. Can't
  > > imagine they'd be happy to have your site generate a pop-up
  > > with
  > > something like "Don't be fooled by where google is taking you"
  > > that
  > > covers the page they link too. Or somehow parses the code
  > > right back to
  > > your site.
  > >
  > > Where are the hackers when you need them.
  > >
  > > After all isn't that what the spyware/adware folks are going
  > > to do?
 >
 > I would uninstall the toolbar.
 > That's what I did and replaced it with msn's toolbar
 > The main thing google's toolbar was any good for was pr, but even that
 > doesn't seem to have much meaning anymore
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, CJM wrote:

 > I'd uninstall ALL toolbars... never found one to be useful - just wasting
 > screen real estate...
[snip]

Firefox's Web Dev addon toolbar is handy[1] (and View > Toolbars > ...
allows you to hide/unhide any toolbar if you need more screen real
estate).

[1] I just wish some of its features (such as displaying accesskeys)
could be toggle permanently on/off instead of reverting to off
whenever a new page is loaded requiring it to be turned on over
and over and ....
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 > On Fri, 18 Feb 2005, CJM wrote:
 >
  >> I'd uninstall ALL toolbars... never found one to be useful - just wasting
  >> screen real estate...
 > [snip]
 >
 > Firefox's Web Dev addon toolbar is handy[1] (and View > Toolbars > ...
 > allows you to hide/unhide any toolbar if you need more screen real
 > estate).
 >
 > [1] I just wish some of its features (such as displaying accesskeys)
 > could be toggle permanently on/off instead of reverting to off
 > whenever a new page is loaded requiring it to be turned on over
 > and over and ....

Well of course, I obviously have the FF Web Dev toolbar! How could we
survive with out it???!

I was really on about the crappy
google/yahoo/msn/insert-your-bloated-self-serving-toolbar-here ones...<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 08:09:53 +1000, "I Need Help!"
<iamedia.TakeThisOut@hotmail.com> wrote:

 >Anyone know how to prevent Google autoLink?

I haven't tried this, but I haven't installed the new Google Toolbar
either:

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