By the way, I noticed several connections to "safebrowsing.clients.google.com" and " s.ytimg.com" which also belong to Google. I don't know what they are, does anyone have a clue?
According to mozillaZine, safebrowsing.clients.google.com is the server to get the list of malware/phising sites from Google's Safe Browsing service which is built-in to the FF Google toolbar and Google Desktop Search (and I think FF3). There is also an API for developers so it could be in more things.
When your machine contacts Google to get more information about a specific hashed URL fragment, or to update the list, we receive standard log information including your IP address and possibly a cookie. This information does not personally identify you, and is retained only for a period of weeks.
And s.ytimg.com just seems to be a server to host content for YouTube (javascript/css/images/etc). Just check the source of a YouTube page and CTRL+F, it's all over the place.
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Or you could (or maybe slashcode can be modified to?) replace the 'www' in http://www.tinyurl.com/6ehog5 with 'preview' to make: http://preview.tinyurl.com/6ehog5
Though I agree, it is a little weird to use a tinyurl for that link.
...And they took away the vending machine...
Why would they take away the vending machine? Wouldn't that have a chance of making money, or did people stop buying enough to make it worthwhile?
By the way, I noticed several connections to "safebrowsing.clients.google.com" and " s.ytimg.com" which also belong to Google. I don't know what they are, does anyone have a clue?
According to mozillaZine, safebrowsing.clients.google.com is the server to get the list of malware/phising sites from Google's Safe Browsing service which is built-in to the FF Google toolbar and Google Desktop Search (and I think FF3). There is also an API for developers so it could be in more things.
Quote from http://code.google.com/apis/safebrowsing/firefox3_privacy_faq.html
When your machine contacts Google to get more information about a specific hashed URL fragment, or to update the list, we receive standard log information including your IP address and possibly a cookie. This information does not personally identify you, and is retained only for a period of weeks.
And s.ytimg.com just seems to be a server to host content for YouTube (javascript/css/images/etc). Just check the source of a YouTube page and CTRL+F, it's all over the place.