Google has reintroduced their Google Website Accelerator which has a vengeance. It absolutely was evil enough the primary time approximately,
Windows 7, but this time it’s downright scary. In version 1.0, web site masters at least had a fighting chance as the GWA identified its requests which has a “X-moz: prefetch” header (as prescribed by Mozilla). Sure, everyone in the world had to change their world wide web applications to fit Google’s vision of a perfect world, but at least they could. Not so for version 2.0 of this virus. It ships using a brand new mutation: The header is gone,
Windows 7 Serial! There’s now no way to identify a pre-fetch from a regular request,
Microsoft Office 2010 Key, which means that it’s no longer possible to block the GWA. While one should always be cautious to ascribe to malice that which could be explained by ignorance,
Office 2007 Key, this appears like double up on evil with a smirk of dark lord. I can not fathom that Google would not merely repeat the mistake from round 1, but actually tweak the offering to increase the chances and scope of hurt?! Someone, somewhere, please tell me this is not so. That we accidently got a bastard,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, mutant version of the GWA. That it’s not actually software that Google is allowing unknowing souls everywhere to download and rampage with. This is bad. UPDATE: Profanity is a tool reserved for special occasions. This is one such: WHAT THE ########!?! Two minutes after I posted this, Google pulled the same stunt they did last time all-around: Thank you for your interest in Google Internet Accelerator. We have currently reached our maximum capacity of users and are actively working to increase the number of users we can support. To start with, it’s great they’re paying faster attention to the backlash. But second, how could this happen again and worse than before? How little memory do they equip the release managers with? This is shocking. UPDATE 2: The missing header is a bug, not evil.