[thelist] Netscape 6 privacy risk

[Kathleen Heytink]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter-Paul Koch [mailto:gassinaumasis at hotmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:54 AM

> Privacy problem discovered in Netscape 6: if you use the
> 'Internet Search'
> functionality for any other search engine than Netscape's,
> your query is
> first sent to the Netscape search engine nonetheless, and redirected
> afterwards.
>
> Thus Netscape knows when you use another search engine and
> what your query
> is.

If you go directly to the search engine page and don't use the search
function in Netscape, you'll avoid this.  I made my own "home page" with a
link to Google.

-- Kath ...
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