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Ubuntu's New Firefox Is Watching You
sukotto writes "Ubuntu recently released an unannounced and experimental 'multisearch' extension to Firefox alpha 3, apparently in an effort to improve the default behavior of new tabs and of search. In a response to one of the initial bug reports the maintainers mentioned that the extension's other purposes were 'collecting the usage data' and 'generating revenue.' Since this extension installs by itself and offers no warning about potential privacy violations, quite a few people (myself included) feel pretty unhappy. The only way to opt out is to disable the extension manually via Tools > Add-ons." Most posters to this Ubuntu forum thread are not happy about multisearch.
I hear that Obama-care also has a feature for euthanasia of old people.
Fixed that for you ;)
Sincerely yours, Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
(One wonders if people will pick up on the sarcasm in my post or if the democratic partisan lynch mob will mod me down to -1 and show up at my doorstep with torches and pitchforks)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.