[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers

Fri Oct 1 05:13:49 CEST 2010

On 1 October 2010 04:47, Tux99 <tux99-mga at uridium.org> wrote:
+> 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.
+>
+>
+
+A bit off-topic, but first you should answer pterjan's question
+here[1]: “Look at the code and show me a place where any URL is sent
+to Google.”
+
+[1] http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-08/msg00461.php
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+