3 ms·
This has nothing to do with security. Removing the referrer information puts Google in the position to use (sell?) this information exclusively. While Google i
by germane 14y ago
This has nothing to do with security. Removing the referrer information puts Google in the position to use (sell?) this information exclusively.
While Google is collecting more and more data about users Mozilla calls it an "improvement" to keep away referrer information from website owners. This is ridiculous.
So Mozilla get's its money from Google and in return they do what Google tells them.
- TomAnthony 14y agoI see your point, but Mozilla is in an impossible position. Encrypting people's search is a good idea. Mozilla should do this, and as others in this thread have pointed out, they could be chastised for not having done it. The fault is Google's who tamper with the referrer data intentionally to obscure the keyword data. They do this for the users 'privacy', but then you can still get the data if you're a paying Adwords customer. I have trouble reconciling 'privacy' and 'you can buy it'.
- driax 14y ago> I have trouble reconciling 'privacy' and 'you can buy it'. I'm not sure, but I would assume that the idea is that data from Adwords, etc. is more anonymised. You can't build a system that tracks peoples searches across visits (using cookies).