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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 05:18 AM EST |
Personally (Not the GP), I prefer not giving Google any temptation to turn
evil.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 01:00 PM EST |
Even if I'd d/l the tarball and built my own, I'm not sure I'd recognise
in the code all the things it does. It tells me it's checking for updates
everytime it phones home at startup, but AFAICT I can't turn that off,
see Silverwave's post below. P'raps I've been reading too many cheap
spy novels, but 700 million browsers phoning home at startup looks
like an easy target for MIM attacks. Besides, I will update my software
when I'm good and ready to sort third party conflicts.
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| Authored by: stegu on Monday, December 03 2012 @ 07:04 PM EST |
| I am referring to the RLZ
identifier. OK, it's a long stretch to call it "spying" - that was a bad
choice of words. I also learned just now that it is possible to opt out of it if
you put your mind to it. However, Firefox comes with none of those strings
attached. It's just a browser.
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