Hi, Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis:
> I admit that it's unclear whether or not those data transmissions could > reasonably be called 'spyware', but at the very least their existence > provides cover for spyware added later, by conditioning users to accept > data transmission to Google when it hasn't been requested (by either the > user or the website being visited). Speaking of spyware, someone shared these links recently on IRC, which I found insightful: https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/icecat.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/firefox.html https://spyware.neocities.org/articles/chrome.html For instance, Firefox’ portal detection mechanism (which I find handy) raises privacy issues, even if that’s not intended. (I suppose we could replace it with example.org and it would work just as well.) Ludo’.
