Response on other newsgroup by [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
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This is not true.
Mozilla copies every URL you visit into an OS-readable *textfield* (in
the same way that other browsers use them for their URL bars by default.
This cannot be read by "anyone on the Internet" but can be read by any
application running on your machine, in the same way as any other native
textfield.
If you choose to download and install the MediaMetrix client, it will
read this information. It could also get it by directly monitoring your
network stream, but that's more of a pain for them.
It is true that it should not be in the Mozilla tree, but there is no
need to get so sensationalist about it.
Gerv
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Peter Lairo wrote:
> It seems that Mozilla now contains code that copies each url you
> visit into a OS readable textfile that can then be read by anyone
> on the internet (particulary Media Matrix). This seems to mean
> that anyone could know exactly which sites you are visiting. If
> this doesn't scare you, i don't know what will. It scares the crap
> out of me. Allthough many OS's are easy to spy on, that is no
> excuse for making it even easier by putting spyware into Mozilla.
> If you agree, please visit the bug that is trying to get the spy
> code out of Mozilla and into the Nestscape tree (aparently
> Netscape/AO-HELL doesn't care about people spying on us, but i
> intend to always use Mozilla anyways). VOTE HERE: Bug 71270
> - <shaver> "Netscape spyware should be in commercial tree"
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71270
>
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Regards,
Peter Lairo
