Picking a random mail to reply to. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Maxim Kammerer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 19:25, Andrew Lewman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Also, the majority of users want google as their default engine due to the >> quality of search results. > > The majority of users of Tor Browser want privacy and anonymity — I > think it makes better sense to focus on that, and not on preference > statistics that are invented on the spot.
While Google does have less than ideal privacy practices they are largely mitigated by the other anonymity preserving measures taken in TBB. In fact the entire point of TBB is to prevent remote sites like Google from being able to determine anything useful from the data being sent. There are two other reasons to prefer Google over other search engines: - Google is better in many (most?) cases such that the majority of people prefer using Google - Every patch against Firefox is another thing to maintain. While it may seem simple, this has non-trivial cost. Every time Firefox changes you have to check each and every patch you have and potentially update it. I'm not saying that Google should remain the default search engine but that to switch there should be a specific threat to mitigate and switching should be the best solution to that threat. -- Eitan Adler _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
