Comments on: SEO Mavens Embarassing Themselves http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/06/29/seo-mavens-embarassing-themselves/ by Stephen E. Arnold Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:48:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Brian http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/2009/06/29/seo-mavens-embarassing-themselves/comment-page-1/#comment-58082 Brian Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:44:49 +0000 http://arnoldit.com/wordpress/?p=7260#comment-58082 FYI, I was shown that same red warning page once in Firefox while happening upon some site of dubious intent. To my unpleasant surprise I noticed that some previously disabled checkboxes in the Tools \ Options \ Security menu had somehow become enabled. When I clicked the "Why was this site blocked?" button I was alarmed to find a Google logo on the subsequent description. Google is the biggest monetary contributor to the Mozilla organization. I suspect their return on investment is our browsing histories, clandestinely purloined in the name of security. If you have a decent virus scanner and generally sound horse sense (or perhaps goose gusto) you might reconsider whether you're comfortable leaving those boxes checked. I blogged about this last autumn. http://blog.demodulated.com/2008/09/05/how-very-forward-of-you-firefox/ FYI, I was shown that same red warning page once in Firefox while happening upon some site of dubious intent. To my unpleasant surprise I noticed that some previously disabled checkboxes in the Tools \ Options \ Security menu had somehow become enabled. When I clicked the “Why was this site blocked?” button I was alarmed to find a Google logo on the subsequent description.

Google is the biggest monetary contributor to the Mozilla organization. I suspect their return on investment is our browsing histories, clandestinely purloined in the name of security. If you have a decent virus scanner and generally sound horse sense (or perhaps goose gusto) you might reconsider whether you’re comfortable leaving those boxes checked.

I blogged about this last autumn. http://blog.demodulated.com/2008/09/05/how-very-forward-of-you-firefox/

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