It didn't take long for the web development community to create a work-around to help websites opt out of Google's new Autolink feature - the one that adds hot links for those running Google's toolbar to websites showing content, such as addresses, that could be linked over to presumably useful services like mapping applications. After just a week or two of carping code appeared on Threadwatch, along with instructions, to cleanse sites of unwanted links. It might have taken longer had Microsoft not introduced and then cancelled a similar product more than a year ago. The debate has similarities to the one between publishers and adware firms, begging the question whether or not web viewers should be able to download software that changes the content of - or adds elements to - publisher's pages.