"Flemming S. Johansen" wrote: > > Starting with version 4.06, the Netscape browser has a new "What's > Related?" button next to the Location: field. After having tried it > in the new 4.5, I am more than a little worried by the functionality > behind it. "Flemming S. Johansen" wrote: > > Starting with version 4.06, the Netscape browser has a new "What's > Related?" button next to the Location: field. After having tried it > in the new 4.5, I am more than a little worried by the functionality > behind it. > The default setting is "Always". So, the unsuspecting user who upgrades > to the latest Netscape will automatically and unknowingly begin sending > out a detailed log of pages viewed. > > Netscapes privacy statement notwithstanding, I don't like the fact that > anyone is able to compile a list of every single web page I visit. I > don't like the fact that someone with a sniffer anywhere on the path > from here to netscape.com is able to do so either. And the company I > work for is not too thrilled about the name of every single document on > our internal, not-for-public-viewing web server leaking out on the Net, > once our users begin installing this release on their PCs. > > I would like to control this "feature" globally for my LAN, but as far > as I can see, there are only two ways of doing it: Fascist control of > Netscape preferences settings on every PC on my LAN, or block > www-rl.netscape.com in the firewall. > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Flemming S. Johansen > fsjat_private An upgrade install of v4.5 over top of v4.07 gave a default of "After first use" for this setting on my windows 98 install. I have never touched this setting so I am assuming that v4.5 must set that as the default. Which is more acceptable.
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