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Re: [privacy] ComScore Networks: The Big Brother of the Internet?

From: "Brian Loe" <knobdy () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2006 13:59:41 -0600

On 12/8/06, Richard M. Smith <rms () computerbytesman com> wrote:

The company use to offer a Web acceleration service via http proxy
servers in order to watch what people do on the Internet.  When I spoke
to some of their technical people on the phone, I never got a very good
answer how they were able to speed-up people's broadband connections.....


Probably the same as any other "accelerator" - caching pages...which
are presumably quicker to return than going and getting the live
page... somehow.
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