On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 16:25 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:> what you put into location bar, instead of jut going directly to that > location? Helps filling search providers databases, especially if they > fed > you unexpiring cookie. But not all of search engines do that crap, > duckduckgo doesn't as far as I know.Yesterday part of England's wired Internet network broke down circa 03:15 GMT. When I tried, in Firefox, to access local web sites hosted on the server I was working on, Firefox could not find the domains. Instead I got a circular revolving display indicating Firefox was trying to connect to the site. All those local domains had non-internet names (e.g. no .com / tld etc.) and have IP addresses (10.22.22.124) in /etc/hosts When the Internet is working, I never had a problem. So perhaps you are correct, Firefox is sending local domain names and everything typed into Firefox's URL slot to Google for people monitoring purposes ;-) How can one disable this latest privacy abusing tactic ? -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.
On Jun 2, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Always Learning <centos at u68.u22.net> wrote:> > When the Internet is working, I never had a problem. So perhaps you are > correct, Firefox is sending local domain names and everything typed into > Firefox's URL slot to Google for people monitoring purposes ;-) > > How can one disable this latest privacy abusing tactic ?Go to Settings > Search and uncheck ?Provide search suggestions?. Or alternately just make sure that ?Show search suggestions in location bar results? is turned off. (Not sure whether it is on by default...)
On 2016-06-02 15:44, David Nelson wrote:> On Jun 2, 2016, at 3:39 PM, Always Learning <centos at u68.u22.net> wrote: > > > > When the Internet is working, I never had a problem. So perhaps you are > > correct, Firefox is sending local domain names and everything typed into > > Firefox's URL slot to Google for people monitoring purposes ;-) > > > > How can one disable this latest privacy abusing tactic ? > > > Go to Settings > Search and uncheck ?Provide search suggestions?. > > Or alternately just make sure that ?Show search suggestions in location bar results? is turned off. (Not sure whether it is on by default...)Browse to about:config, filter on "http", see the long list of sites Firefox needs to contact in order to better serve you. In some cases I serve the sites locally, for others I replaced the protocol string with hxxp. Don't need all the excess traffic and extra eyes on my browsing habits, boring as they may be. The greatest pain with Firefox came from trying to build from source. They've got very strange ideas of how complex and customized a build system needs to be. Apparently they couldn't figure out autotools and make. -- Charles