Browser Dethroned...
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Jun. 21, 2006, 07:32 AM
Post: #16
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RE: Browser Dethroned...
a home page is something that I tell my browser to go fetch...
"phone home" activity is something my browser is doing WITHOUT me telling it to do... a home page is something that is obviously being fetched... this "Link" that Sleipnir is 'fetching' is an item in the "Favorites" pull-down menu... consider it this way, let's suppose your browser, without your knowledge, "pings" each and EVERY link within your "Favorites" folder each and EVERY time that you open up your browser... and for every "dead ping", when you go to your "Favorites" pull-down menu to click on "The Un-Official Proxomitron Forum", the link instead says "Connection Error"... sure, a nice "feature", but my browser doing it without me telling it to? Sleipnir is doing it so that the "Blog Link" links to the appropriate Blog in your native language (English versus Japanese), but it is nonetheless a "phoning home" that is cleverly cloaked and one nobody would ever suspect... I mean, no other browser "fetches" content from the web to "define" a link within the "Favorites" folder upon each and EVERY opening of the browser... |
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Jun. 21, 2006, 09:21 PM
Post: #17
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RE: Browser Dethroned...
ProxRocks Wrote:besafe Wrote:ProxRocks: In general preferences, if you uncheck "Notify updates of Sleipnir" it should stop phoning home shouldn't it. It doesn't really bother me if it is. A lot of Antivirus programs do a heck of a lot of activity on the net too and probably phone home. I think most app makers like to have an idea of how often their product is being used and I think this is mainly what happens. |
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Jun. 21, 2006, 11:07 PM
Post: #18
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RE: Browser Dethroned...
besafe Wrote:In general preferences, if you uncheck "Notify updates of Sleipnir" it should stop phoning home shouldn't it? Nope... With that unchecked and with Sleipnir set to open with no home page and opening with no web page at all, open up your Sleipnir and before doing ANY 'net activity, access the ol' "What's Proxo Thinking" URL... Or have the log window open while opening Sleipnir and that blank page... You'll see that "phone home" activity... |
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