I've been on Snow Leopard for a long time but TBH I must be getting pretty dumb not to realise what was going on with Mavericks. It seems amazing that we go to great lengths to maintain privacy via various cookie cleaners and so on, but right in full sight we are sending every single thing we do to Google's servers.
Incredible. Still I imagine the two relevant prefs are: Do not preload top hit... & Prevent search engine from providing suggestions. Whether either of these do what it says on the tin is probably debatable. Seems simpler to maintain the separate address and search fields, but I doubt that's going to happen anytime soon. Haven't used FireFox for a while, now might be a good time to have another look. Cheers, Chris >As of Lion or so, Safari got rid of its separate URL and search fields, >and combined them into one field, like Internet Explorer has had for >years. I believe the algorithm is that if what you're typing clearly >looks like a URL, it's tried directly first, otherwise it's sent to your >search provider for a search. But there is a preference setting for >whether you want whatever you are typing sent to Google for an adaptive >search as you type it, and of course while you are in the middle of >typing something that will turn out to be a recognizable URL, it's >likely to be sent to Google ahead of time if you have that setting on. > > >> On Aug 16, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Chris <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi: >> >> Am I being naive or is everything I type in the address bar in Safari, >translated via Google? Even if I know the address, the simple act of >typing it in the address bar transmits it to Google. >> >> If I then use Snitch to block Google, I am unable to connect to the >site. All this even without any need to involve Google - or for that >matter Bing/Yahoo - since I know the address I want. >> >> I would have thought this a major invasion of privacy. AFAIK the only >way round it is to type the address into something like DuckDuckGo or IxQuick. >> >> Chris >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacOSX-talk mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
