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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 8, 2012 21:28 UTC (Sat) by geofft (subscriber, #59789)
In reply to: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by Lennie
Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Is that actually true? I recall hearing that it will stop sending as soon as you type "https", for exactly that reason.

(I do avoid Chrome because I dislike Google's corporate policies in general, but I think the individuals comprising the Chrome team are generally quite great about privacy issues like this.)


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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 8, 2012 21:32 UTC (Sat) by Lennie (subscriber, #49641) [Link]

It really does do that.

Just checked now, with an updated version on Windows which I hardly use (so I assume that is the default setting).

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