> I'd recommend that everyone disable those options
if they value their privacy.
> Or just switch to a sane browser, such as Konqueror.
It's really outrageous
> that this kind of "phoning home" is
tolerated in Free Software.
Very much agree!!!, I use firefox on rawhide now, but I have disabled that stuff.
It was not working very well, but I installed Opera and it got better right away and it
started working better. Incredible how it detected Opera and started functioning right
away.
On konqueror, I like konqueror, but It does not give me the ability to use the agent
switcher like it did before (KDE 3.5.9). Now I can't visit pages that are for IE like
I did before :(
I get the message:
"Sorry, but because of security considerations Netscape Version 6 is not supported by
VistaNet applications. "
I have tried
Settings --> Configure Konqueror --> Web Browsing --> Browser Identification and
try to put the site in there, but I can't :( it just allows me to type http and that
is it :(
I use Opera for these pages because Firefox(with User Agent enabled) also fails. I have
to use it since it is the only one that works and the other choice is to use Windows and
native IE. But as long as it works, I am okay with it.
I saw those options, and neither of them suggested that
they were
responsible for the phoning home. At least their
description doesn't
suggest such. Seems like the same functionality could be
gained by
maintaining a local sqlite db of phishing sites.
--
They were not responsible, but they acknowledged that a third party would get the
information. That is the part that bothers/bothered many users.
Regards,
Antonio