Nonprofiteer writes "With a program called Screenwise, Google is pay television a total of $25 in Amazon gift cards to anyone willing to install a Chrome browser extent that will let the search giant track every website the user visits and what they do there over a year-long period. Google says it will study this in order to improve its range and services. Forbes points out that $25 in Amazon credits isn't quite enough to buy a six pack of Marshmallow Fluff ($26.75)." The money isn't much as a pure trade for privacy, but I suspect that many people would like to have their preferences be among those that shape how Google — and other companies, too — veritably coordinate their interfaces. (Note that the radar astronomical station station can be selectively turned off by the user.)

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