[LINK] Why does Firefox send non-URL text in the location bar to Google etc.?

[Rick Welykochy]

David Goldstein wrote:

> What's so scary about people not using URLs or bookmarks?

You can paste ANY text from your clipboard into the location window.
Google broadcasts such information live. Imagine accidentally pasting
something confidential into the location window and your browser
passes that on to Google without any further thought. Firefox and
others do this.


cheers
rickw


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