On 01/04/2012 03:24 PM, David C. Rankin pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 01/04/2012 01:30 PM, upscope wrote:
On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:56:39 AM David C. Rankin wrote:
On 01/04/2012 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:
Le 04/01/2012 16:46, David C. Rankin a écrit :
Guys,
What is the chromium browser doing with 'spdy' and what all
spdy or spyd?
just wondering :-)
jdd
SPDY (pronounced speedy) is an experimental networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content.
It's new to me and if it's communicating with doubleclick.net, I'm concerned with the personal information it's grabbing and sending to google behind my back. More investigation is warranted...
Glad you posted this. Have you tried commenting out the ppdy lines? I may try it later today. Thtas why I have not used google for a search engine they spy. Only use chromium as a backup browser but I'd bet if you look at FireFox their spying also.
No doubt,
Data mining has become a "Big Brother" big business. The nefarious purposes to which it can be put are equally alarming. The bizarre application of this type of mining became apparent just a day or two ago when a report was issued concerning what type of sites those who visited the respective political party sites had also visited. The report was either an NBC or NPR piece.
The details are unimportant, the unnerving part of it was that these folks that broker in data mining could accurately categorize political persuasion by statistically looking at the browsing history (and equally alarming 'subsequent browsing behavior') of people that visited various sites.
This private information could then be further used by political campaigns to either target favorable voters for support and contribution or worse, target individuals who favor the opposition candidate with negative ads to dissuade voting -- all further corrupting an already perverted process.
This being done and facilitated by the developers of the competing browsers.
I always knew there was a corrupt motive behind browser development, the extent to which is yet unknown, but it would serve us all well to know what type of information we are giving up, how it is being collected and to whom it is being communicated...
There should be some mandatory type disclosure on software of what information is collected and how it is used. Yes, I know the infamous privacy statement, but we all know that is so full of dishonest legal weasel words as to effectively mask how the data is being collected and how it will ultimately be used. Damn lawyers...
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