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Netscape 6 is Spyware?

Posted by michael on from the green-dinosaur-now-more-threatening dept.

spoon00 writes: "AOL is collecting information on what Netscape 6 users are searching for on sites like google.com. IP address, the date Netscape was installed and a unique ID number are other bits of information AOL is also collecting."

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  1. Re:What's the betting... by Pope+Slackman · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ... that this is an overblown response over a mistake,

    It's funny how since this is about Netscape, this comment got modded up.
    I'd bet you a round of beers that if this article was about IE, you'd already be at "Troll" or "Flamebait".

    C-X C-S

  2. Re:any surprise? by tzanger · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    The Windows XP 'powertool' has a very useful feature that allows you to enter a shortcut for a search engine. So if I type 'g privacy' it sends off a search to Google for 'privacy'.

    Not a personal attack, but is this supposed to be an innovation of Windows? Both Konqueror and Opera have had this for quite some time now.

  3. Re:any surprise? by generic-man · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He never said that it was an innovation of Windows. You did.

    The ability to add custom searches goes back to Internet Explorer 4, which was before Konqueror and Opera have had it.

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  4. That's it for Netscape. by Futurepower(tm) · · Score: 1, Offtopic


    It IS sad, and that's it for Netscape. I'm removing all Netscape versions from the computers under my control.

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