[Novalug] Firefox 3 gets a great review from the Washington Post

[Beartooth]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:

>>>        So how about it? Does this mean Firefox is doing 
>>> something tantamount to spyware?

>> I dont like spyware and I dont want google knowing everything 
>> I do. But what in those options says "Dont spy on me"? Those 
>> options sound more like they are trying to make sure you dont 
>> surf someplace bad, something I wouldn't think sending browser 
>> data to google would do.
>>
>> Now Im going to have to start sniffing my browser connections.....

 	Please do! Someone on the RedHat list had been, and what 
he saw seems to've been the first indictment (right or wrong).

> Google is one major reporter of dangerous sites to the Stop 
> Badware project.  Stop Badware is who Firefox pulls the 
> information from.  I think they pull directly from Stop 
> Badware's DB though, rather than ask Google to ask Stop Badware 
> about the site.

 	Makes sense, and I hope it's true; but there's at 
least one indication otherwise : note the use of 'Google', not 
'Stop Badware' below.

 	One guy on the list found 
http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/firefox_privacy.html

  -- which says, and I quote in full :

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If you choose to check with Google about each site you visit, 
Google will receive the URLs of pages you visit for evaluation. 
When you click to accept, reject, or close the warning message 
that Phishing Protection gives you about a suspicious page, 
Google will log your action and the URL of the page. Google will 
receive standard log information, including a cookie, as part of 
this process. Google will not associate the information that 
Phishing Protection logs with other personal information about 
you. However, it is possible that a URL sent to Google may itself 
contain personal information. Please see the Google Privacy 
Policy for more information.
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 	I *thought* someone in the thread had done the sniffing; 
but I don't seem to find the post again ....

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Beartooth Gerontoflatulocrat,
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