Hearing all the media blather about the upcoming Facebook IPO has made me think about a couple of things. Mostly, I am so glad I have Firefox available. I learned to develop Facebook applications a few years back, looked at what the applications could see about a user, and removed myself from every single application on Facebook. The amount of information an application user is giving away is amazing.
Luckily, I have Firefox and add-ons like Adblock and Ghostery (for tracking/blocking inter-site data slurping) and other tools of that sort to help me to, perhaps, stay under the radar of some of those people. Somewhat.
On the other hand, Mozilla seems to be reluctant to let the search bar be configured to go to https://www.google.com. (http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=633773) Hm. Maybe Mozilla is still, in some ways at least, just another company. O well, it is something to think about.
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Whoa, I don't get the conspiracy theory here? There are valid reasons against HTTPS (look at the comments on the bug) and anyway, using HTTPS doesn't change anything to the information you share with Google...
«On the other hand, Mozilla seems to be reluctant to let the search bar be configured to go to https://www.google.com.»
HTTPS-Everywhere FF extension takes care of that.
My understanding, which may not be perfect, is that allowing ubiquitous HTTPS will enable anonymization. And accusing mozilla.com of, once in a while, acting like a ".com" should not imply a conspiracy theory....
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