Comments on: To All: Don’t Use Google Accelerator To Google: Don’t Be Evil http://obviousdiversion.com/webdev/dont-use-google-accelerator/ Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:15:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Seth http://obviousdiversion.com/webdev/dont-use-google-accelerator/comment-page-1/#comment-1281 Seth Sat, 28 May 2005 14:53:43 +0000 http://obviousdiversion.com/?p=354#comment-1281 "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. “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.

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