Google spyware on FreeBSD Web site?

Brett Glass brett at lariat.net
Tue Dec 4 21:02:16 UTC 2012


At 01:41 PM 12/4/2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
 
>If you're unhappy about websites that pass your details on to
>advertizers and you don't want to have to trust that all those sites out
>there have correctly implemented 'Do Not Track' then I heartily
>recommend the RequestPolicy plugin for FireFox. The downside is that the
>first time you go to a new site, you'll have to set which sites you
>allow the site your visiting to cross-site too, but that can be quite an
>eye-opener in itself.  (Works well with NoScript too.)

I actually use several such plug-ins. However, the average user does not;
in fact, most users do not even know how to activate the "Do Not Track"
header (which Google's lobbyists in DC have advocated that Web sites
ignore). It seems to me that The FreeBSD Project should be on the side
of security, privacy, and good ethics. Just because it has received 
contributions of labor from Google does not mean it should not sell out
to it.

Just my $0.02.

--Brett Glass 



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