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

[Brian Loe]

On 12/8/06, Richard M. Smith <rms at 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.