To All: Don’t Use Google Accelerator
To Google: Don’t Be Evil
For your safety and the health of the web, don’t install Google Accelerator. If you already have installed it, please uninstall Google Accelerator. Google Accelerator makes the huge mistake of treating the web as if it were all content without regard for applications, which is incredibly strange for a company that works largely on web applications.
Google Accelerator is a pretty stupid beta release from a normally smart company. Although it’s intention is to speed up web surfing, it has thus far violated the privacy of numerous users, deleted and rearranged people’s information in web-based applications and has the potential for much more heartache.
Google seems to intent on making an entire copy of the web on it’s own servers in the name of speeding everything up. Unfortunately, this means that you, as a developer, lose control over what exactly gets served up to an individual user leading to an array of problems and that you, as a user, end up with some fast but potentially confusing and data-losing experiences. Hey Google, the web is plenty fast. Let individual developers worry about whether their servers are up to the task. Let the web be the web and you just build applications on top of it like the rest of us, okay? If you use your enormous clout and user base to change the rules of what should be an open platform of independent publishers and developers, you’re clearly violating your ‘Don’t be evil’ policy.
Pull Google Accelerator off the web and save us all a lot of grief.
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“Unfortunately, this means that you, as a developer, lose control over what exactly gets served up to an individual user”
The ability to control what the user recieves was lost a long time ago if it ever exsisted. Text only browsers are quite old. Abilities to change text sizes, style sheets, block pop-ups, java, javascript, uninstall extensions are newer.
These functions are becoming more powerful and easy to use with plugins such as adblock, greasemonkey, and platypus.
Proxy servers which sometimes ignore instructions also cause loss of control.