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Future Versions of Firefox Will Report All Clicks on Links to the Server
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Future version of Firefox will report all clicks on links to the server of the website, so that the site can log where you are going to. Read more details about this feature here:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin...es/009594.html
Allegedly there is no privacy concern.
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Whatever. I like safari a lot more anyway.
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...so that's how they make money.
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Safari! 
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If you read the article, there's a good explanation of why this is a good feature. Lots of Web sites already have click-tracking mechanisms in place that do the same thing but slow the user down a lot and cause other weird problems. This is just providing a hook so they can do it with out resorting to kludges that ultimately just annoy the end user.
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Let's see, it's in the development version only, well noted if you read bugzilla (which you probably should do if you're running the development builds), and easy to disable.
This is less of an issue than the "spyware and adware" Apple slipped into iTunes 6.
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Originally Posted by Leia's Left Bun
Whatever. I like safari a lot more anyway.
Safari will get this too eventually. It's done by a proposal by an Internet group of which David Hyatt of Apple is a member.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Safari will get this too eventually. It's done by a proposal by an Internet group of which David Hyatt of Apple is a member.
Still don't care.
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Too bad Firefox isn't open source. Oh wait.
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Nothing to see here, folks. Moving right along.
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