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Anybody use Dogpile as their toolbar?

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Anybody use Dogpile as their toolbar?

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You know, one of the only reasons why I use IE is because of the useful toolbars. I love Google and is a mainstay on my explorer windows.

Then Frogboy talked about Alexa toolbar and now I have that. So it would seem that everything is all good, but then I come across Dogpile. The search engine is cool but I really like the RSS feed. I, of course, have it set to my own blogs as well as JoeUser and Modblog blogs, but I also have it sell for ZDNET and Downloads.com and some other news places.

The funny thing is that now that I have Joe User's Blog Navigator I seem to use that to browse through all the internet.... stuff I'll call it.

I also have MSN toolbar and have yet to install another toolbar that I can't remember the name of!

I really want to make my own Toolbar once my joeKnowledge Network goes fully on-line (years from now it feels like it will be finished... )

Anyway, what toolbars you use when you begrudgingly use IE?
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Reply #26 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Reply #27 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I understand, but it is necessary to managing a business. Its similar to Safeway noting that cheerios are selling, but raison bran isn't and deciding to devote more shelfspace to cheerios. We try not to be intrusive about it.
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Reply #28 from WinCustomize Forums Top
"Individual User Information

From time-to-time the InfoSpace Sites request information from you that may identify you personally in addition to the anonymous information described above. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name, email address, shipping address, and zip code), and demographic information (such as age, gender, occupation, and household income). InfoSpace will not use or disclose your individual user information except as described in this privacy policy. InfoSpace collects individual user information in the following ways from different InfoSpace Sites:"

You also nowhere say on the site you don't sell this information, which is a common way for 3rd tier search platforms to stay in business.
Reply #29 from WinCustomize Forums Top
'Disclaimers' such as mentioned in #28 are not good enough.....leaving the product pretty safely in the 'spyware' camp, albeit overtly....
Reply #30 from WinCustomize Forums Top
You just have to use Spybot to see what's safe.
Reply #31 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Hmm... No reply?

Guess it stays in the spyware category then
Reply #32 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I just ran Ad-Aware and Spyware Doctor and it totlly took out Alexa Toobar and wanted to take out Dogpile (but I didn't let it)

Well, I actually like Alexa but now I am not to sure. Same with Dogpile.


As far as Viewpoint is concered, I am still trying to investigate that. Viewpoint is also the name of a toolbar. I am not sure if Viewpoint and AOL's Viewpoint is the same thing.

Anyway, now all the toolbars are messed up and I have to uninstall all of them.

But I'll tell you the ones I will keep:
Yahoo!
Google