On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 16:25 -0500, Valeri Galtsev wrote:
what you put into location bar, instead of jut going directly to that location? Helps filling search providers databases, especially if they fed you unexpiring cookie. But not all of search engines do that crap, duckduckgo doesn't as far as I know.
Yesterday part of England's wired Internet network broke down circa 03:15 GMT.
When I tried, in Firefox, to access local web sites hosted on the server I was working on, Firefox could not find the domains. Instead I got a circular revolving display indicating Firefox was trying to connect to the site.
All those local domains had non-internet names (e.g. no .com / tld etc.) and have IP addresses (10.22.22.124) in /etc/hosts
When the Internet is working, I never had a problem. So perhaps you are correct, Firefox is sending local domain names and everything typed into Firefox's URL slot to Google for people monitoring purposes ;-)
How can one disable this latest privacy abusing tactic ?