From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jul 14 20:31:35 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61F0EB99B09 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:31:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: from cosmo.uchicago.edu (cosmo.uchicago.edu [128.135.70.90]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 40A901C40 for ; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:31:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu) Received: by cosmo.uchicago.edu (Postfix, from userid 48) id 6CFAACB8C9F; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:31:28 -0500 (CDT) Received: from 128.135.52.6 (SquirrelMail authenticated user valeri) by cosmo.uchicago.edu with HTTP; Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:31:28 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <15118.128.135.52.6.1468528288.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20160714220944.2f05391f@archlinux.localdomain> References: <5e4a20fe-51a4-ac10-4f72-23fcc3d04c15@hiwaay.net> <20160714002117.224b64ae@archlinux.localdomain> <8cd76e2e-ed11-7b3b-be75-de6bb4dcc092@hiwaay.net> <20160714063744.snaqwdbmzhd4ndb5@dijkstra.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de> <86r3awnh1i.fsf@WorkBox.Home> <20160714220944.2f05391f@archlinux.localdomain> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 15:31:28 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: borderline OT fireox question From: "Valeri Galtsev" To: "Ralf Mardorf" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Reply-To: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8-5.el5.centos.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.22 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 20:31:35 -0000 On Thu, July 14, 2016 3:09 pm, Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2016 14:41:45 -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote: >>Google and Mozilla are competitors (and therefore Google won't be >>getting anything from Firefox) > > Type about:config into Firefox's address bar, then after ignoring > the warning, in the search bar type google . How do you think works > safe browsing and what do you think are the URLs good for? What is the > geo location URL good for? Firefox shares high amounts of data with > Google. Or use web browser that doesn't share anything with google. Midori does not (though I didn't fully switched to it, it doesn't fully fill the bill). Use tor project's browser (which is based on the Firefox's code, alas, still). When you go to tor project, read their suggestions about accessing web habits etc. They are extremely instructive. Do not use the same browser to go places that definitely collect information - dedicate some ("junk") browser to be used for this purpose. Google chrome can be it (they definitely do collect information, and you don't care to use it for places that collect information too). Many places do use "external" services for their statistics. Google-analytics is most often used one. (I personally hate site owners who make my browser talk to any places outside of their domain...). What you can do about these (because you _will_ hit such websites, and there is no way to know which one is and which is not using google analytics). Search for IP ranges involved and add routes for them to point to your localhost IP. (The last simultaneously will make websites of bastards using goggle analytics respond faster). And the list goes on. But many good things can be learned from a presentation I mentioned already in this thread (apologies again for presenter using non-colloquial language a lot). Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++