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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 17 2012 @ 07:38 PM EDT |
my isnt it easy
ROFL
then its all encrypted
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| Authored by: JamesK on Tuesday, July 17 2012 @ 09:40 PM EDT |
I've been using an add-on called "HTTPS Everywhere", which uses HTTPS
for many sites, including Google, Wikipedia and more.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, July 18 2012 @ 03:12 AM EDT |
I suppose it is all well and good that HTTPS is used so as to hide your search
strings from your ISP and other ne'er-do-wells that may be lurking on the
Internet backbone. But last I knew, Google still does searches with HTTP GET
(rather than POST) so that your search terms end up in the URL. And last I knew
the default behavior of Firefox was to send that URL as the "referrer"
when you clicked on a search result. As such, the website you visit knows what
search terms you used.
That would seem to me to be a much bigger issue than your ISP or others seeing
your search terms at the time you send the request to Google. I wonder if this
change addresses that.
(OK, before posting I broke down and read the fine article. I see there is also
concern about public Wifi. But if you click on a link in the search results and
your are not using https for the site you are going to visit, then somebody
snooping on your Wifi connection can still learn your search terms from the
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