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To this list you can add the deal breaker - Firefox is not mining your data and then passing it on to the NSA.
by SeanDav 13y ago
To this list you can add the deal breaker - Firefox is not mining your data and then passing it on to the NSA.
- Estragon 13y agoEven if this were true (and there's no reason to believe that Google Chrome is being used in this way), there's still the open-source Chromium browser.
- mehrzad 13y agoWhich is a Nightly as well as being a pain to update. (though I hear it's different on GNU/Linux)
- AJ007 13y agoWhich Google has made intentionally hard to find. Could your mom or grandmother figure this one out? http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/layout_test_results/ http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/layout_test_results/
- gcr 13y agoOn the systems I work with, it's easy to walk your grandmother through "click on the black square, now type apt-get install chromium, now hit enter."
- wutbrodo 13y agoYea, my dad still hasn't _quite_ figured out copy and paste but was clicking around the Ubuntu Software Center one day and managed to install Chromium (he heard me talk about how I was planning to install Chrome on his computer and I guess the names were similar enough).
- 616c 13y agohttp://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-snapshots/index.html?path=Win/ http://commondatastorage.googleapis.com/chromium-browser-sna...
- takluyver 13y agoChromium is inferior in certain respects, such as lacking an integrated PDF viewer.
- mrweasel 13y agoI would really wish that Firefox provided a way of disabling all external services, including Googles. If you go to the about:config and search for "Google", I would like the ability to disable all these services.
- asadotzler 13y agoFirefox button > Options > Options (or Tools > Options) > Security, un-check both "Block reported attack sites" and "Block reported web forgeries" That will turn off the Firefox Safe Browsing features that come from Google.
- criley2 13y agoSeeing as it's extremely likely that the NSA is tapping into fiber at exchanges near major corporations, and almost everything you do online is tracked by someone, it seems like a moot point anyway. Who cares if Mozilla or Google is providing the NSA with access when the NSA is monitoring all the data heading to and from them without permission?