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Any way you have some proof? I At this point I honestly don't doubt it, but I'd like to see some technical data.
by ThePinion 14y ago
Any way you have some proof? I At this point I honestly don't doubt it, but I'd like to see some technical data.
- blahedo 14y agoJust personal experience. When I installed Xubuntu 12.10 (not an upgrade---it was on a machine previously running MacOS only), every time I started to type a URL into Firefox's location bar, the popdown list would include not only history and bookmarks, but results that you'd get from searching google and wikipedia for the sequence of letters typed so far. It updated after every keypress. In the Firefox preferences, the only relevant config option (that I found) was to suggest either/both/none of history and bookmarks, but turning that to "none" meant you only got the search results. Turning off the Ubuntu extensions also turned off the extra search results, so I'm hoping that it also stopped sending my info and didn't just start doing it silently.
- ThePinion 14y agoGood to know. I'll look into it and add it as a suggestion to remove it on my Ubuntu tips/tricks website. Thanks!