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What you call intelligent and sensible is really an overreach of webmasters right. The user has a right to download a toolbar, then use that toolbar to alter content on a page. People do it all the time with the WebDev Extension for Firefox, does that mean that the extension is evil?
If Google was pushing the toolbar onto people by autoinstalling it, and then pushing the ads onto pages by autolinking then we can talk about some evil occuring here. But none of that is happening, the surfer is enhancing the content of the page using a toolbar that they willingly downloaded and then willingly used an option in that toolbar to add content to the page.
Im not saying that the webmaster doesn't have rights, but this is a far cry from what MSN did and what other companies do with scumware/spyware.
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