Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 21:10:15 -0453.75 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question Message-ID: <5798a075-66eb-dc37-729b-ba8e72f2e1df@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <86poqfohta.fsf@WorkBox.Home> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160714220944.2f05391f@archlinux.localdomain> <86poqfohta.fsf@WorkBox.Home>
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On 07/14/16 19:46, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: > Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions writes: > >> On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:41:45 -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >>> Google and Mozilla are competitors (and therefore Google won't be >>> getting anything from Firefox) >> Type about:config into Firefox's address bar, then after ignoring >> the warning, in the search bar type google . How do you think works >> safe browsing and what do you think are the URLs good for? What is the >> geo location URL good for? Firefox shares high amounts of data with >> Google. > This doesn't record personal information. The geolocation feature > certainly uses the IP address at which you're currently accessing the > Internet to tell where in the world you are at this particular moment, > but not *who* you are or what you're searching for. (Unless you're > browsing from home, and your ISP is openly sharing your account > information with others, then the IP address can't reliably say anything > about the who is doing the browsing, just where it's being done.) The > Firefox "safe browsing" setting refers to the Google database of > malicious/suspicious websites for its anti-phishing protection. It's not > recording your every keystroke and feeding it to Google. > > This is all beside the point. The first sentence in this thread was: > >> I notice that whenever I start typing text into the serch-bar of >> Firefox ... it suggests completions for me, implying that Google has >> my identity pegged. > That's just downright fallacious. The mere existence of the "suggestion" > option doesn't mean every Firefox user's browsing is being tracked, and > even if we assume that it did mean as much it does not follow that the > entity doing the tracking must be Google. The "suggestions" option has > nothing to do with Google *unless* you use Google as your search engine > via the Firefox interface.[1] > > Of course I retrieved that information using Firefox, and for all anyone > knows I may have landed on the linked-to page through a Google search, > and Google may have deliberately led me to a site chockful of > misinformation in order to sustain the large-scale cover-up of its > nefarious solar system domination scheme. So maybe that information > can't be trusted. > > [1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/use-popular-search-suggestions-firefox-search-bar?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=Search+suggestions As the OP, let me clarify the above. Whenever I start typing text into the search bar, it suggests completions *that I have typed in recently (last few weeks)*. My 2nd reply clarified that detail, not my 1st post, sorry. -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.
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