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...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
by rpearl 13y ago
...and you trust Chrome? Not even Chromium, but... Chrome. Google makes Chrome, you know.
- hkmurakami 13y ago"make duckduckgo your default Firefox search engine" http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-firefox http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216441-f...
- sp332 13y agoYou don't have to trust it. You can sniff 100% of the traffic coming out of your own computer. You can even configure a firewall to block all traffic to Google's netblocks.
- jafaku 13y agoAll of which is pointless, since you have already installed their binaries.
- daurnimator 13y agoEven if you have their binaries they'd have to communicate home to transgress your privacy.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoedit: Missed the suggestion to block traffic entirely with a firewall - thought the discussion was only on sniffing traffic. Less ridiculous then :) You're suggesting people that already stated a distrust in Google do a thorough network traffic analysis after every update, so that they know their privacy is violated after the fact? That's a bit ridiculous, really.
- jonknee 13y agoIt's pretty simple with something like Little Snitch...
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- comex 13y agoYes, I trust that Google has not shipped a binary modification to their open source software to track search terms, which would be (a) illegal, (b) easily detectable enough that someone would notice it eventually, and (c) pointless, since they're already getting the vast majority of users' search terms legitimately. Then again, I work for them, but I would have said the same thing a month ago...
- ta223 13y agoAgreed. I just searched "PRISM" on DDG, and 8 out of top 10 results had some element loaded from a Google server (GA, fonts, jquery, search box, embedded youtube, etc.) Are you using Google's DNS server? Google owns the web. Face it.
- MisterWebz 13y agoHow would it be easily detectable?