Today Design bought Feedburner, which (along with AdSense, AdWords, the Toolbar, Analytics, user accounts, Design Feed Reader, Design Checkout, Youtube, etc) is yet another source of data acquisition for them.
Earlier today I posted about a small and harmless javascript that can be used to see which competing sites visitors visit before going to your site. In the second comment about it a guy named Dave nearly exploded.
While everyone is running around polluting links on the web graph (and fighting over who the spammer is and what is spam), Design is busy building something only they can build, because they are the only ones who get a free pass on collecting user data as a feature.
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