Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:47:46 +0200 From: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>, FreeBSD Questions !!!! <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <411dbfa0-580f-5817-543c-5077daa9d61a@bananmonarki.se> In-Reply-To: <20160716173613.956c8469.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <947ab84e-f3a0-e8be-6555-a5f0a1f24f45@bananmonarki.se> <20160716173613.956c8469.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 2016-07-16 17:36, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2016 10:21:31 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> >> On 2016-07-13 21:55, William A. Mahaffey III wrote: >>> I notice that whenever I start typing text into the serch-bar of >>> Firefox (on my FreeBSD 9.3R daily-driver desktop system) it suggests >>> completions for me, implying that Google has my identity pegged. I use >>> TOR when surfing & followed the advice of a thread a few weeks ago >>> about a FF setting to prevent those suggestions. I also have cron >>> delete cookies & other cruft from the .mozilla directory nightly. How >>> do they still have me ? TIA & have a good one. >>> >> Well the simple solution to that is turn of javascript. > Which renders 99% of "modern" web pages totally unusable > (as in "stop using that web page")... Not really. I only accept javascript from a select few, five at the moment. If the homepage is */completely/* <https://www.google.se/search?q=completely&client=firefox-b&gbv=1&hl=sv&sa=X&as_q=&spell=1&ved=0ahUKEwiznZL_w_rNAhWF1SwKHZksAScQBQgQKAA>broken i surf to some other page.
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