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<H1>[Mageia-dev] Talk of Browsers</H1>
<B>Ahmad Samir</B>
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<I>Fri Oct 1 05:13:49 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>On 1 October 2010 04:47, Tux99 <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">tux99-mga at uridium.org</A>> wrote:
><i> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010, Liam R E Quin wrote:
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Possibly, but then you don't get the ads... which, like it or not, are
</I>>><i> funding an awful lot of Web sites.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> The business model of web site owners shouldn't be our concern,
</I>><i> otherwise we should also stop using FOSS since it's all lost sales for
</I>><i> proprietary software and we should stop reading news online since it
</I>><i> hurts newspaper sales, etc.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> There's always the myth that Linux users have no money, and/or just want
</I>>><i> things without paying for them...
</I>><i>
</I>><i> It has nothing to do with money, it's about blocking annoying flashing
</I>><i> ads, pop-overs, pop-unders, user-tracking scripts, etc.
</I>><i>
</I>>><i> Better to make AdBlock scripts easy to install (e.g. via
</I>>><i> MageiaControlCentre?), and maybe include them (so no download needed)
</I>>><i> but not enabled.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Ok, we could keep it disabled by default, but it should be installed so
</I>><i> that anyone can easily enable it, if desired.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> On the other hand we should keep the following two options in Firefox
</I>><i> DISABLED by default, since they are nothing but Google tracking devices
</I>><i> disguised as security features:
</I>><i>
</I>><i> Preferences>Security:
</I>><i> - Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected attack site
</I>><i> - Tell me if the site I'm visiting is a suspected forgery
</I>><i>
</I>><i> With these two options enabled, Firefox contacts a Google DB for every
</I>><i> site you visit, telling Google the site you are visiting (Google
</I>><i> claims they don't use this info to track users, but given Google's
</I>><i> attitude to privacy, I do not believe their claim at all).
</I>><i> Also these two options are really meant to protect Windows users, on
</I>><i> Linux they are fairly useless from a security POV.
</I>><i>
</I>><i>
</I>
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] <A HREF="http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-08/msg00461.php">http://lists.mandriva.com/cooker/2010-08/msg00461.php</A>
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Ahmad Samir
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