All the more reason to use a Federated Identity Provider like OpenId, and authenticate against servers in another more favourable jurisdiction. Still doesn't stop sites won't handing over your data, but at least your password is safe!

I've always thought that more people would quit smoking, if cigarettes were pink...

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't actually can spam... all it does is stop the embedded links _within_ the spam from getting googleized...

Seems to me the only real way to kill the spam is to have a captcha system which most blog engines are starting to move to anyway...