GPS - Re: What are we updating anyway with Map Update 20008 City Navigator

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Re: What are we updating anyway with Map Update 20008 City Navigator

John Tserkezis

2007-08-31, 10:33 pm

Sharon Ciccio wrote:

> Any idea if and what spying Garmin is doing on us?

Aside from the more innocent things, like update checks, and perhaps
registration or authorisation code verifications, other likely culprits I've
found are:

Calls home, simply because "they want to know", and less than honourable
reasons like "doubleclick.com".

My firewall blocked that last one on one of my installs. Oh dear, I'm all
broken up about it. Think of all the advertising that I'll miss out on.

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