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

[Stilgherrian]

On 03/01/2011, at 10:27 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> 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.

You can paste ANY text from your clipboard into your email client... Imagine accidentally pasting something confidential into your email client and it passed that on without any further thought.

Stil


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