David C. Rankin wrote:

Guys,

What is the chromium browser doing with 'spdy' and what all information is it collecting? Familiarizing myself with it a little more I was browsing ~/.config/chromium/Preferences and ran across:

"spdy": { "servers": [ "toolbarqueries.google.com:443", "lh3.googleusercontent.com:443", "ssl.google-analytics.com:443", "fls.doubleclick.net:443", "clients2.google.com:443", "chrome.google.com:443", "checkout.google.com:443", "lh5.googleusercontent.com:443", "www.gstatic.com:443", "lh4.googleusercontent.com:443", "ssl.gstatic.com:443", "fonts.googleapis.com:443", "googleads.g.doubleclick.net:443", "lh6.googleusercontent.com:443", "www.googleadservices.com:443", "plusone.google.com:443", "www.google.com:443", "clients2.googleusercontent.com:443" ] },

Immediately "fls.doubleclick.net:443" jumped out as something I really didn't want my browser communicating with.

Doubleclick is a google company/subsidiary. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (4.6°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 01/04/2012 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:

Le 04/01/2012 16:46, David C. Rankin a écrit :

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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... -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:56:39 AM David C. Rankin wrote:

On 01/04/2012 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:

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Le 04/01/2012 16:46, David C. Rankin a écrit :

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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. -- Russ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

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:

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On Wednesday, January 04, 2012 10:56:39 AM David C. Rankin wrote:

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On 01/04/2012 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:

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Le 04/01/2012 16:46, David C. Rankin a écrit :

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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...

If you do not want your pc's sending data to these sites block them in your router. If you can't talk to them you can't send them any data. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 04/01/12 13:56, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 01/04/2012 10:25 AM, jdd wrote:

SPDY (pronounced speedy) is an experimental networking protocol developed primarily at Google for transporting web content.

Well, yeah, you might as well become familiar with it, as it is the prime candidate to replace or extend http in the long term. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Dave Howorth said the following on 01/05/2012 05:30 AM:

Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:

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If you do not want your pc's sending data to these sites block them in your router. If you can't talk to them you can't send them any data.

How quaint :) I used to have a lot of lines in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

But nowadays Adblock, NoScript and Ghostery seem to do a reasonable job if you're using Firefox.

Indeed they do; I particularly like Adblock freeing up the space on the page that the advert would have occupied. But that doesn't address the OP's issue. That gets back to a routing problem. Yes, ultimately you need your router to have a large list of disabled addresses, but DNS can go a long way to figuring out what those addresses are. Check out http://pgl.yoyo.org/ for a number of tools and strategies and databases for addressing this. -- "Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct." -- Thomas Carlyle. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 01/05/2012 04:30 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:

How quaint :) I used to have a lot of lines in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

Hehe! I hadn't thought of doing it that way, but that is pretty darn slick! [11:52 phoenix:/etc/postfix] # ping doubleclick.net PING phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms 64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms ^C Old dog - new trick! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

David C. Rankin said the following on 01/05/2012 12:54 PM:

On 01/05/2012 04:30 AM, Dave Howorth wrote:

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How quaint :) I used to have a lot of lines in my /etc/hosts file:

127.0.0.1 doubleclick.net

Hehe! I hadn't thought of doing it that way, but that is pretty darn slick!

[11:52 phoenix:/etc/postfix] # ping doubleclick.net PING phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms 64 bytes from phoenix.rlfpllc.com (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.054 ms ^C

Old dog - new trick!

Actually its a bit lame. If the page you are viewing references a site you want nulled out, and advert you don't wish to see, then its going to try "http://127.9.9.1/whatever" and since you don't have server there dishing out a null page you browser is gong to wait ... and wait ... and wait .. and time out. A good way to kill your browser's performance. What you want is something that listens on port 80, perhaps using the XINET daemon and then invokes a shell script that merely uses 'echo' to respond <html><head></head><body></body></html> Big deal, eh? -- He had occasional flashes of silence, that made his conversation perfectly delightful. Sydney Smith, referring to Macaulay -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan said the following on 01/05/2012 03:06 PM:

* Anton Aylward [01-05-12 14:00]:

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Actually its a bit lame.

really not so, try it....

Really is so when I tried it a few years ago.

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A good way to kill your browser's performance.

no, you get an instantaneous responce, "Object not found!"

YMMV. Even if that's so it may well buqqer-up your page payout/rendering. better to have a guaranteed "blank" page:

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What you want is something that listens on port 80, perhaps using the XINET daemon and then invokes a shell script that merely uses 'echo' to respond

<html><head></head><body></body></html>

Big deal, eh?

something else to try... :^)

Of course having the Adblock plugin is better in a number of ways. As I pointed out earlier, it also shrinks down the space on the page that the advert would have taken up so you get more of the real content of the page rendered and faster. It also have mechanisms for maintaining its own list of blocked sites and updating that so you don't have to mess around with /etc/hosts. There is, however a "but". AdBlock only works for things that use AdBlock plug-ins. Firefox, Chrome, Thunderbird ... But what about KMail? Evolution? Yes, adverts in email? Many messages are in HTML and have embedded links to graphics and adverts that get downloaded when you view the message. That's where the use of /etc/hosts or perhaps your DNS service comes in. And don't bet that all rendering engines won't wait and wait and wait to time-out. There's good reason to use FF & T'Bird: plug-ins. -- It's important to have good cryptography even on small platforms because otherwise someone will hack your nanites to give you a really silly hairstyle. -- Bruce Schneier -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 01/05/2012 02:29 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:

Of course having the Adblock plugin is better in a number of ways.

Agreed, but I had to ding the devs of Adblock for their recent slip in of the default setting to: "Allow some non-intrusive advertising" WTF?? It appeared and smelled like a sellout. When the add-on update hit my kids boxes, and they had no idea what this was, and I was shocked to find it enabled by default. Hopefully Adblock will re-think the cost to its reputation for this 'let the ads that pay us in' option... (yes I see that it is only for small ads, yada yada yada.. right bucko) If you haven't checked, go to: Edit->Preferences->Add-ons->Adblock Plus->Filter Preferences, then uncheck: [x] Allow some non-intrusive advertising Good grief! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/01/12 12:33, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 01/05/2012 02:29 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Of course having the Adblock plugin is better in a number of ways. Agreed, but I had to ding the devs of Adblock for their recent slip in of the default setting to:

"Allow some non-intrusive advertising"

WTF?? It appeared and smelled like a sellout. When the add-on update hit my kids boxes, and they had no idea what this was, and I was shocked to find it enabled by default. Hopefully Adblock will re-think the cost to its reputation for this 'let the ads that pay us in' option...

(yes I see that it is only for small ads, yada yada yada.. right bucko)

If you haven't checked, go to:

Edit->Preferences->Add-ons->Adblock Plus->Filter Preferences, then uncheck:

[x] Allow some non-intrusive advertising

Good grief!

Next to that disabling box is "Read More" and when you do read more it states: What is this about? Starting with Adblock Plus 2.0 you can allow some of the advertising that is considered not annoying. By doing this you support websites that rely on advertising but choose to do it in a non-intrusive way. And you give these websites an advantage over their competition which encourages other websites to use non-intrusive advertising as well. In the long term the web will become a better place for everybody, not only Adblock Plus users. Without this feature we run the danger that increasing Adblock Plus usage will make small websites unsustainable. Why is this feature enabled by default? Because that's unfortunately the only way to reach the goals outlined above. If we ask users to enable this feature then most of them won't do it — simply because they never change any settings unless absolutely necessary. However, advertisers will only be interested in switching to better ways of advertising if the majority of Adblock Plus users has this feature enabled. But I hate all ads! No problem, you can disable this feature at any time. Click the Adblock Plus icon and choose "Filter Preferences" from the menu. Uncheck "Allow non-intrusive advertising" and you are done. BC -- What religion were Adam and Eve? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

What I'd really like is a plugin that was smart enough to recognise attempts to use doubleclick and not simply block them but to edit the URL to go directly to the site that doubleclick is proxying for. Is there one? -- No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. Charles M. Schulz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 1/5/2012 5:33 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:

On 01/05/2012 02:29 PM, Anton Aylward wrote:

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Of course having the Adblock plugin is better in a number of ways.

Agreed, but I had to ding the devs of Adblock for their recent slip in of the default setting to:

"Allow some non-intrusive advertising"

It wasn't a slip in the "Unintentional" meaning of the word. It was intentional and done as a way to earn a revenue stream. I just can't get too excited about this, and I don't even bother to run adblock all the time. Innocuous text ads really don't bother me that much, its just the price you pay for free content over the internet. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org