Toolbars are the latest and greatest thing from all the people who brought you stuff you don’t need. With a toolbar you can do searches, download more toolbars, listen to music and load websites without having to remember a URL or do anything more complicated than click something. But do we need these things?
With a toolbar in your web browser you can do a lot that you might have had some difficulty with in the past. You can do all kinds of downloading, searching and even perform other sorts of activities when you have some kinds of toolbars installed. However, you have to wonder about the ultimate good of a toolbar. Do you really want to have a third party company tracking what you search for through its toolbar and using it to advertise more garbage to you that you probably don’t need? Or would you prefer to search with some degree of anonymity about you?
Another thing a toolbar tends to do is offer you a constant ad regardless of what you’re searching for. While this might not be an ad for anything but the toolbar’s company, it still carries the subliminal and constant annoyance of watching someone’s propaganda be constantly at the edge of your sight while you surf the Web. Is it really so hard to find a search engine to go to when you want to look for something? Of course it’s fairly easy. Since most toolbars don’t do much more than stalk and peddle to you, they’re generally not that necessary for you.
