Re: The Spirit of Free Software, or The Reality

[Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015 at 12:36:15PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Bas Wijnen:
> 
> > I have some experience with safe browsing, but indeed I have not
> > looked up how it works.  I do know that it continuously sends data
> > to Google, and I have quite a bit of confidence in their capability
> > and willingness to use that data for tracking.  From your
> > description it sounds like that is not trivial, but there are smart
> > people at Google, and they have near infinite resources.
> 
> One aspect that could be fixed fairly easily: Iceweasel sends your
> Google cookies along those requests (and accepts new Google cookies if
> you do not have them).  That's not really required by the protocol.

No, it doesn't since version 27.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=897516

Mike