[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Fri Oct 1 04:47:13 CEST 2010

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Liam R E Quin wrote:
+
+> Possibly, but then you don't get the ads... which, like it or not, are
+> funding an awful lot of Web sites.
+
+The business model of web site owners shouldn't be our concern, 
+otherwise we should also stop using FOSS since it's all lost sales for 
+proprietary software and we should stop reading news online since it 
+hurts newspaper sales, etc.
+
+> There's always the myth that Linux users have no money, and/or just want
+> things without paying for them...
+
+It has nothing to do with money, it's about blocking annoying flashing 
+ads, pop-overs, pop-unders, user-tracking scripts, etc.
+ 
+> Better to make AdBlock scripts easy to install (e.g. via
+> MageiaControlCentre?), and maybe include them (so no download needed)
+> but not enabled.
+
+Ok, we could keep it disabled by default, but it should be installed so 
+that anyone can easily enable it, if desired.
+
+On the other hand we should keep the following two options in Firefox 
+DISABLED by default, since they are nothing but Google tracking devices 
+disguised as security features:
+
+Preferences>Security:
+- Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site
+- Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery
+
+With these two options enabled, Firefox contacts a Google DB for every 
+site you visit, telling Google the site you are visiting (Google 
+claims they don't use this info to track users, but given Google's 
+attitude to privacy, I do not believe their claim at all).
+Also these two options are really meant to protect Windows users, on 
+Linux they are fairly useless from a security POV.
+
+