On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 12:10:26 +0200 Richard Z <rz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Firefox is doing this. You have to disable the spyware called "safe > browsing" to get rid of it. And yes, it has been exploited by > intelligence agencies around the world and may submit every single > URL you visit to google if they want it. > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368255 > That was an interesting read. Thanks. I actually run nightly compiled locally, with a .mozconfig that turns off lots of firefox capability that I don't need, and is just attack surface for me. I don't have safe-browsing enabled, but I don't have it disabled explicitly either, so it must be a default setting. I'll compile it out from now on. Safe-browsing! Talk about double speak. In the meantime, I can just turn it off in preferences. And your answer clears up what I was seeing in the umatrix log. There were lots of entries for safe-browsing.google.com. And I even saw the cookie get recreated there, after self-destructing cookies had removed it, as a persistent-cookie. In that bugzilla the google guy noted the hostility to google. But it has to be admitted that this is definitely a conflict of interest for them. They make more money, the more they know about the person they are serving the ad to. So, a promise to not use data goes against their business incentives. Sort of like adblock plus selling exceptions to their ad blocking to ad providers. Of course, google have woven themselves so successfully into the web, they probably don't need this data to perfectly identify a browser everywhere it goes. :-) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
