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Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
Aug. 21, 2006, 05:15 PM
Post: #1
Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
following up on a CastleCops thread referencing Scroogle led me to this:
http://www.scroogle.org/mozilla.html

I installed Firefox 1.5.0.6 (portable version, but that does not make any difference for this little "test")...

And SURE ENOUGH!!!...

The "Google Searches" from the 'built-in' Google search bar tacks on a client=Firefox et cetera, blah, blah, blah to EVERY search performed from that 'built-in' TRACKING DEVICE!!!
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Aug. 21, 2006, 06:35 PM
Post: #2
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
Here's the filter I use for that:

PHP Code:
[HTTP headers]
In FALSE
Out 
TRUE
Key 
"Abort: 5. Firefox google fix (out)"
URL "[^.]+.google.[^/]+/search\?*\&client=*&$URL((\#(\&(sourceid|client|rls|ie|oe|start)=[^&]+))+\#)$SET(abort=\@)"
Replace "firefox google fix \q $JUMP($GET(abort))" 

Be aware they also add a mousedown event listener to the links to see which link you click on.

Mike
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Aug. 21, 2006, 07:20 PM
Post: #3
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
yep, sidki's Google URL Untangler takes care of that d@mn onmousedown...

Abort: 5?
Just out of curiosity, what are the other 'at least 4' Abort:'s?
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Aug. 22, 2006, 01:47 AM
Post: #4
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
Abort: 3. Alias Redirector (Out)

Abort: 4. Enable Keyword search (Out)

The first 2 are spare right now. Smile!

ProxRocks Wrote:yep, sidki's Google URL Untangler takes care of that d@mn onmousedown...

hmm... I'm not sure how that filter works, but I have been getting some google search results back that use js instead of tag attributes to add the mousedown event. Anyway, I'm sure he has it covered.

Something a bit more creepy caught my attention tonight, a "ping" attribute on anchor & area tags. I guess this is not news, but I never heard of it.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/darin/arc...09594.html

Mike
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Aug. 22, 2006, 09:30 AM
Post: #5
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
I stopped using the Google search plugin in Firefox when I saw how much information was being sent out by it. I enabled the Google search in Proxomitron (a jump to Google header filter). I changed the default home page in Firefox when they switched to Google because that was sending out too much information. Now, a lot of the time I use Scroogle instead of Google. There is a search plugin for Firefox for Scroogle now.
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Oct. 24, 2006, 06:08 PM
Post: #6
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
[quote=z12]
Here's the filter I use for that:

Hello Z12

This is a cute little filter.
I tried it today, and it works nice.
Exactly what I wanted to get rid of all these infos every site in the world seems to be tracking!
It's now part of my config, and Sidki's set is taking care of the rest, the mouse tracking and a faked cookie.

By the way I also want to thank you all folks to have made me discover Scroogle, a perfect proxy alternative. As you said, still need google for the cached pages, img and >100 searches.
Scroogle looks nice to me, no unnecessary code, no garbage text/links.

BTW, there are 2 buttons (plugins) to add in the FIREFOX SEARCH BOX, downloadable here :
http://mycroft.mozdev.org/download.html?...orm=Search
one site in Poland, the other is US, I believe.

Pitou
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Nov. 19, 2006, 01:53 PM
Post: #7
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
you can clean the bloat out of all of firefox searchplugins. use # to comment disable the update lines. be sure to backup your collection (drag copy of searchplugins folders to nearby folder), because firefox install deletes your searchplugins, and dump in the standard ones.
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Apr. 26, 2007, 01:07 AM
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RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
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Apr. 26, 2007, 02:07 PM
Post: #9
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
Hi Kayla,

Since, this filter is formatted correctly.
Copy the filter to the clipboard.
Open the Proxomitron's Header Filter dialog.
Click once on any filter.
Right-click.
Select "Import filters from clipboard".
Click OK.
Test.
Return to Proxomitron and save the new cfg or revert to the old.

OR

Since, this posted filter also has the proper header, [HTTP headers].
Copy the filter to the clipboard.
On the Proxomitron's Main dialog click "File".
Click "Merge config filters".
Select "Merge data from clipboard".
Test.
Return to Proxomitron and save the new cfg or revert to the old.

Sharing your header filters
Merging Config File Filters

HTH
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Aug. 07, 2007, 03:27 AM
Post: #10
RE: Firefox's Google Search is TRACKING YOU!!!
Hi "Everyone",

I added an entry into my hosts file so that if anyone tries to surf to google on this box with any browser, . . .the google url is resolved to "Scroogle's" IP and they wind up at Scroogle instead of google. And anything "launching" out to google will be sent to Scroogle.
Code:
69.60.115.168    www.google.com


But remember that if You are using a Remote Proxy, the host file doesn't work blocking or resolving url/ip since the proxy's Cache is accessed for the connection instead of the hosts file.

Also when manually adding entries into the hosts file, use the "tab" key instead of hitting the "space bar" between the Ip and url, . . .it takes longer to scan the hosts file if "space" is used. The tab makes scanning faster.

You can pop up a command prompt, ping scroogle to get the ip number of scroogle, add it to Your hosts file resolving google's url to it. Reboot and that should take care of it. Also, once You have added it, . . .try to use the google search in Firefox and here is what I get:
Code:
Not Found

The requested URL /firefox was not found on this server.

Take care have a great & wonderful day,
"JaK"
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