On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 03:12:06PM +0200, Fabian Keil wrote: > Please have a look at: > http://www.privoxy.org/user-manual/contact.html
pebcak, problem solved. > A definition of "p0wned by google" would be great, too. In the case of privoxy it was a joke related to my pebcak. In the case of Chromium.. well.. you know it In the case of Mozilla.. I just mention this habit of checking "safebrowsing.google.com" every half an hour, correlating a user's IP or exit node with her Google cookie. I know that 0.0001% of the population are aware of being spied upon by safebrowsing.google.com and capable of turning it off. And I know there are tons of people who think safebrowsing.google.com is an important service that Google could in no way make available anonymously because.. OMG.. then it wouldn't make money with it!! And it wouldn't make Uncle Sam satisfied. (Yes of course "safebrowsing" could be architected in a way that the data is distributed anonymously and in respect of privacy, much like the mirror networks of linux distributions for example) I presume safebrowsing.google.com isn't the only spyware in web browsers, but one of the most efficient ones. Or maybe my personal observation of web browser activity patterns are somehow misguided. I'm just articulating what I noticed since no-one in the community seems to have developed a critical opinion regarding that service. Wikipedia has no "Criticism" box about it. Neither does https://wiki.mozilla.org/Phishing_Protection in any way question the practice of having the browser periodically call "home." I presume this could be a major scandal, but since I'm not a major blogger it's just a little voice on a little mailing list. Maybe some journalist picks it up and researches in-depth if my observations are correct? And I wasn't considering non-free or secondary browsers. So from this ironically desperate point of view all browsers are p0wned. -- Liberationtech is public & archives are searchable on Google. Violations of list guidelines will get you moderated: https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/liberationtech. Unsubscribe, change to digest, or change password by emailing moderator at [email protected].
