OK taking this a bit further, does anybody use FireFox as an alternative? If so, which extensions/add-ons related to privacy and security do you recommend? Or for that matter, anything that makes life easier.
Chris >On 16/8/14 Macs R We wrote: > >>In fact, using the default Safari preferences, even your examples WILL >>be sent to the search provider *as you are typing them in*, until they >>become distinguishable as actual URLs. That's the problem. >> >>> On Aug 16, 2014, at 1:23 PM, LuKreme <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On 16 Aug 2014, at 12:16 , Chris <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>> >>> That is not the case. >>> >>> If you type in anything like the following, it goes to your search >>engine (which does not have to be Google). >>> >>> yahoo >>> largest city in Bolivia >>> randomsite.com >>> >>> These will not be sent to your search provider: >>> >>> apopularsite.com >>> siteyouvevisitedbefore.com >>> randomsite.com/ >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to >>> state I finally won out over it. >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-talk mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-talk
