slate_leeper wrote:
> The html page is being generated and sent by a Firefox addon called
> Track Me Not.
If I had installed something as weird as TrackMeNot, I think I would
remember it.
But thanks for the feedback anyway.
Bruce Schneier's blog on TrackMeNot 2006 Aug --
http://peek.snipr.com/103oac ... Let's count the ways this doesn't work.
.... it wastes a whole lot of bandwidth. A query every twelve seconds
translates into 2,400 queries a day, assuming an eight-hour workday. A
typical Google response is about 25K, so we're talking 60 megabytes of
additional traffic daily. ... The way serious people protect their
web-searching privacy is through anonymization.
--
Mike Easter


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