top kek On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:41 PM, Mirimir <miri...@riseup.net> wrote:
> On 05/31/2015 08:55 PM, Paul A. Crable wrote: > > Perhaps someone could help me here. On version 4.5.1 of the Tor > (Firefox) > > browser, the search field, to the right of the place to enter the URL, > now > > has a symbol on it that is proprietary to disconnect.me. I have also > > found that while working on the WWW, from time to time a screen comes up > > from direct.me asking me to enter search terms and to select the search > > engine to use. > > > > It appears that disconnect.me has hijacked the search field in Foxfile, > > and also found a way to interpose it's own search screen when URL's > cannot > > be found. I have done nothing to make this happen, and unfortunately > > don't know what I can do to make it go away. > > > > Can anyone explain why this is happening? > > > > Until now the default search engine for Tor was Start Page, but that's > > gone. Is Tor no longer using Start Page as the default search engine? > > > > I expect this kind of thing with a standard browser, but I thought Tor > and > > Foxfile had pretty well locked things down to prevent this kind of thing > > happening. > > > > Any thoughts? > > > > Paul > > > > At first, I was just going to say that disconnect.me is the default > search option in Tor Browser 4.5.1. But then I see on the blog:[0] > > | Last comment for the disconnect search add-on on on mozillas > | add-on pages does not sound good. > | > | > > https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/disconnect-search/reviews/678756/ > | > | >This plugin should enhance security, but in fact is doing > | quite opposite. > | Disconnect-search is regularly uploading plugin settings and > | usage data, along with unique user ID, browser Agent string > | and IP address not only to the developers website, but to > | third parties as well (amazon servers of unknown account and > | adobe stats servers). > | > | That is confirmed in the discussion about a different bug: > | https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1166692#c1 > > Some clarification would be good. > > [0] https://blog.torproject.org/blog/tor-browser-451-released > -- > tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org > To unsubscribe or change other settings go to > https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk > -- tor-talk mailing list - tor-talk@lists.torproject.org To unsubscribe or change other settings go to https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
