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Am I correct in assuming that chrome is now a keylogger in regards to your url bar, and perhaps clipboard?


Chrome sends things you type in the URL bar to Google to do prediction:

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95656?hl=en

From that page it sounds like it is on by default.


Ive always assumed that each urn visited in chrome is reported back to google. The data is crazy valuable in a lot of ways.


What good browser is free of this horror?


Firefox prompts you before even turning on search prediction, and it asks you about telemetry at first startup.


For people like me Firefox offer the best of both worlds:

* No google keylogger in the main url bar (but local autocomplete based on previous history, bookmarks etc)

* access to autocomplete in search field next to url bar (I think removing this was one of the simplifications in the original Chrome.)

Ctrl-L: go to url bar

Ctrl-K: go to search field


Firefox?


Qutebrowser.


qutebrowser¹ is fantastic. I just wish it had more ways to block trackers on webpages (other than just completely disabling JavaScript—even being able to whitelist JavaScript on certain hostnames would be a huge start).

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¹ — https://qutebrowser.org/


Chromium?


Is it though?


It is, if you don't sign the browser into Google, disable all telemetry and prediction options, and use a non-Google search engine.


Technically anything that displays real-time search suggestions as you type is a keylogger, Firefox's included.


Have them offline and copy the raw drive/tape to trusted 3rd party (as they must do regularly for backups anwyway) and have that 3rd party query the data. Or if the data is old enough, have them just copy the backup to the 3rd party.

This should eliminate any query expense they would have had (as it's been replaced by raw data copy expense.)

And the 3rd party is to protect the data you're not supposed to get.


This is why we use numbers instead of words when describing easily measured things, like income in $. Easy to graph, easy to see. Words are no friend in issues of class.


I want that unicorn image, how do I cause your site to error again?


It's hosted on github pages, so I guess you will have to wait for github pages to go down again!


I don't see the dicking around on facebook category here.

I'm pretty sure breaking down someones "work" into 9 categories is not useful.

Also, I got this error: We didn't receive a complete request from your browser in time. Sorry about that. Please try refreshing and contact us if the problem persists.

There was a very cool picture of an angry unicorn though


It would be nice to even actually own some of what you're repairing. Can you resell your itunes purchases? I guess that battle is assumed lost, so we can beg for the right to repair that which we use to consume what media we do not own and can't resell.


Sue for damages and get the data back via discovery before you lose.

You could also ask your "fans" to send you their cached copies. Or you could search your local browser history. Or you could hire forensic analysists to examine any drives you may have had the data on.

You could also pay lots of fees and bloat up the bitcoin blockchain with it, if you don't want to lose it again.


Remind me how the automobile augmented the horse?


Horses don't strive to be employed and humans don't worry about the horse employment rate, either. I don't understand why the comparison to horse-unemployment is so widespread, a horse is an outdated technology in the current context, not an unemployed worker.


Because it lends itself to humor and compassion more easily than the casette tape / CD one.


It didn't augment the horse, but it sure augmented the jobs of the courier and chauffeur.


The automobile didn't, true, but the wheel, the cart and the plow (among others) did, for thousands of years.


So the question is, are we more likely to be shackled with plows, or replaced and only seen for gambling on at a race track :)


You're more likely to end up as a source of cheap meat and hides.


Hey, all that surplus capital enabled the creation of the modern pet food industry. Great example!


I get all my legal advice from "Nathan McAlone" on "Business Insider Deutschland." Seems legit.


This is a story about Somali Jamal in Denmark, who planned to join ISIS with his friends. But a cop called him, and apologized for uh.., thinking he might be a threat. So Jamal uh, changes his mind, but two of his buddies don't and die in Syria.

So if you hug a terrorist, he might not want to kill you as much, maybe.

You know who doesn't have this terrorist hugging problem?

Japan.


Could you describe Japan's approach in greater detail?


Japanese society is one of the most ethnically, linguistically and culturally homogeneous societies in the world, composed of 98.5% ethnic Japanese.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan



It's because they're racist. Do you want to be racist like Japan or get BTFO'd?

That's what I thought!

edit: It's a (bad) joke.


While blanket terms are bad, and my knowledge of Japan is too little, pure racism probably is (very?) widespread there. I recall seeing (on news) a beauty queen in name of Japan was alienated or harassed for being of mixed race, half-Japanese. Maybe someone actually familiar will come along to tell us about the reality.


Did you just make a blanket statement that Japan is racist? That's really racist.


"It's because they're racist. "

Funny, Japan doesn't have a terrorism problem.




A lot more people have died of terrorism in Japan than Denmark. And in both Japan and Scandinavia most terrorism has been committed by members of the ethnic majority.


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