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We are recently encountering spreading spam activities from the TurkTelekom network in our community sites. This becomes really anoying so we need to deal with this the one way or another.

Our first approach to handle this was to block the TurkTelekom network by a simple reverse dns lookup, but unfortunately, the spammers are now using IP address spaces without reverse dns delegation that are sill residing in the TurkTelekom network according to RIPE. I am not a fan of blocking whole providers out of our community sites but since our abuse requests went unnoticed and there is not really a big chance to hit a real user, I am currently taking into account to use the RIPE database for this job. At ftp://ftp.ripe.net/ripe/dbase/split/ RIPE makes available recent snapshots of their database, so this should not be too hard. If you are experiencing similar activities while not aiming at the turkish market, this might also be an option for you.

Let’s see how this hare and the hedgehog game will end. If it will at all.

If you are one of these people complaining about Chrome and privacy only now, you should never ever have used Google Search in the past, too - or do you still think that Google does not know what search results you click on after it has recorded your search terms? Google already knows your web history (at least when you search and/or the website has Google ads) and with Chrome they even know more about what and when you visit it without even searching. Hey, why does Google create a Browser?

• Combine your internet habbits with already collected data (e.g. from Google Search, Adsense and of course the tracking cookies) so that they can show you better ads to make more money
• Collect even more data for better ads
• Make Google even more present on your desktop and thereby make you use more of their products so they can display you more ads (and collect even more information again) to make more money
• Promote Google as a brand to make you use more of their products (ok, this seems to backfire slowly but surely)

What else should Google do than making more money? So why did Google not create Chrome?

• Know who you are – even if they (already) do
• Piss off the competition (primarily)
• Steal your private data to give it to third parties

Mails, Dates, Searches, Ads clicked, Websites visited, Conversations had etc. – with Chrome Google will know qualitatively and quantitatively more of the stuff it already knows. Nothing new about this for ten years - we’re still responsible for our data ourself. I still admire Google’s business :-).