Google, as is their right, has taken a lot of unilateral actions lately. Shutting down Google Reader, killing the Chrome RSS extension, killing caldav support, not allowing incoming contacts from Jabber and, claiming people have joined Google Authorship (when they have not). It may be time to consider some unilateral actions on our side. For example you can add the block of re-direct to local maps to your /etc/hosts to try and cut down your visibility just a little bit.127.0.0.1 www.googleadservices.com
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