Is google sabotaging browsers?
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From: notbob on 6 Mar 2010 20:02 On 2010-03-06, TJ <TJ(a)noneofyour.business> wrote: > On 03/06/2010 04:10 PM, notbob wrote: >> Who knows what >> google is capable of? >> > > Hey, if you can't trust a company whose corporate motto used to be > "Don't be Evil," who can you trust? RLZ identifier: Info sent: Encoded string, according to Google, contains non-identifying information used for statistics. Although there is no way to confirm this. When: # On Google search query # Every 24 hours # On installation and other significant events Optional: No http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome You can can trust 'em if you like. I don't. nb
From: TJ on 6 Mar 2010 20:30 On 03/06/2010 08:02 PM, notbob wrote: > On 2010-03-06, TJ<TJ(a)noneofyour.business> wrote: >> On 03/06/2010 04:10 PM, notbob wrote: >>> Who knows what >>> google is capable of? >>> >> >> Hey, if you can't trust a company whose corporate motto used to be >> "Don't be Evil," who can you trust? > > > > RLZ identifier: > > Info sent: > Encoded string, according to Google, contains non-identifying > information used for statistics. Although there is no way to confirm > this. > > When: > # On Google search query > # Every 24 hours > # On installation and other significant events > > Optional: > No > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome > > You can can trust 'em if you like. I don't. > > nb Okey-dokey. And next time I'll be sure to insert a notice in large capital letters when I'm not being serious. That way, maybe you'll know - but I wouldn't want to bet on it. TJ -- 90 per cent of everything is crud. - Theodore Sturgeon
From: Sidney Lambe on 6 Mar 2010 20:38 On comp.os.linux.misc, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: > I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, > hotlinks in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them > at least twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible > google is subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome > browser? > > nb > I've had a similar problem with some search strings on google lately. It just stalls indefinitely. There's nothing unusual about the search strings' syntax: they worked fine on other search engines, like startpage. And so it certainly wasn't a DNS problem, as some folks have speculated is at the root of your problems on this thread. So I suggest that you have done what I did: the next time this happens get the link and try it on startpage,com. See what happens there. I would not put anything past google. Can't think of any organization running Internet services other than M$ that I trust less. So, indulging in a little seemingly paranoid thinking, it has crossed my mind that, because the subjects of my searches _were_ controversial, that it was being censored. That google was blocking the display of the search results because of the sites in it. Sid
From: Michael Black on 6 Mar 2010 21:44 On Sat, 7 Mar 2010, Sidney Lambe wrote: > On comp.os.linux.misc, notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> wrote: >> I'm running slack 13 and use seamonkey as my browser. Lately, >> hotlinks in websites seem to take forever, or worse, clicking on them >> at least twice, to finally go to the linked URL. Is it possible >> google is subverting browsers to encourage adoption of its chrome >> browser? >> >> nb >> > > I've had a similar problem with some search strings on google lately. > It just stalls indefinitely. There's nothing unusual about the > search strings' syntax: they worked fine on other search engines, like > startpage. > > And so it certainly wasn't a DNS problem, as some folks have > speculated is at the root of your problems on this thread. > > So I suggest that you have done what I did: the next time this > happens get the link and try it on startpage,com. See what > happens there. > > I would not put anything past google. Can't think of any organization > running Internet services other than M$ that I trust less. > > So, indulging in a little seemingly paranoid thinking, it has > crossed my mind that, because the subjects of my searches > _were_ controversial, that it was being censored. That google > was blocking the display of the search results because of > the sites in it. > You need to get the NSA patch for the kernel, which is guaranteed to make your system free of paranoia. Michael
From: Grant Edwards on 7 Mar 2010 00:21
On 2010-03-07, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: > You need to get the NSA patch for the kernel, which is guaranteed to > make your system free of paranoia. Are you kidding? The NSA may not have invented paranoia, but they've put a lot of work into perfecting it. The NSA's kernel patches intentionally _add_ paranoia to your kernel. A lot of it. That's the whole point: http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/index.shtml -- Grant |