It's an invasion of privacy when add-ons like toolbars collect your search history or web browsing statistics.
Your views on web browser add-ons collecting personal info?
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Not all cookies can be trusted. Some will collect data about software you use for future improvements, others for advertising and marketing. I believe McAfee and other antivirus programs block and remove certain cookies that may collect information about you or your computer for wrongful means.
That's why I don't download strange add-ons.
Also, it may help out some webmasters if they downloaded Google toolbars and browse hard to crawl pages of their website(s).
It'll make Google bots crawl the hard-to-reach pages easily,
Thanks, I never knew Google Toolbar can ve used to help Google Bot.
The cookie is a lie!
But anyways as long as the info isn't made public I could care less.