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That's fine, but there is no spyware. I use Google Toolbar.

If you do not want a piece of software to stay up to date, you do not install that software. So, in cases such as that, you would not install Google Toolbar. However, automatic updating is not spyware and should not be treated as such. Google does not inject any sort of spyware. They do have some tracking info that they may keep via their site or toolbar that is either common practice and not dubious or permitted by the end user.

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The language in folk music kind of bugs me, really. I like differing kinds of hip hop, rock and other stuff. Welcome.

All sites track IP addresses and where they come from. Yahoo! included. Google doesn't do any of the stuff that Ad Aware truly catches (maybe incidentially, but its not the same). No spyware. The Google Toolbar tracks what sites you visit, etc. but only if you check the box saying it is ok to do so (it is not default). Google and Yahoo! are two of the best in this department, for the very reason that they have reputations at stake. More so on Google. If you feel Google is "bad," there isn't a heck of a lot that you can use.

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Hmm... if you combine the best of me and the best of Doug, you get the perfect man?

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I considered the options of a tie breaker. But, in the end, I decided a ties a tie and it would do the entire process an injustice to try to break it.

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