Oh man this sucks! Why isn't StartPage the default search engine anyway? Can someone link me the back story? Thanks!
On 06/01/2015 07:23 AM, benjamin barber wrote: > 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
