Google & Firefox probing waters?

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Arbre

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Google (which is building up a peers DNA database [http://venturebeat.com/2007/05/22/google-invests-in-biotech-company-23andme-to-form-genetic-database] by proposing to decipher your complete genome, since 2007) and Mozilla's Firefox (Mozilla has a very good deal [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Foundation#Financing] with Google) have both generated a certain amount of discontent [http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?comments_parentId=99702&forumId=1] since the end of 08, and this is still going on.
Clearly working, along many others, to sanitize Internet, to civilize the web and destroy the bad weeds, they're masking sure inoffensive websites are being blocked twice, first in the search engine, secondly directly via the browser, and many times for completely over the top reasons which are not the result of malicious behaviour from the sites in question.
It's obviously easier to block everything by default, then ask people to put the sites under verification and wait for eons until things change. If they ever do.
Now, you may want to consider how many people actually use Firefox. From statistics, Firefox is ahead of Internet Explorer (Microsoft *sic*).
That makes a lot of people.
But how many of this "a lot" know how to set up Firefox? I know my mum does not. Nor that other guy who recently bought a computer, got Firefox, but didn't know how to install a 3D software.
Getting rid of this nuisance is done by ticking off two boxes, the second and third one, in "Tools > Options > Security tab".
One really wonders how far the next by default filter system will go.
 

SimuLord

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If we could get Mozilla, Microsoft, and Google to collectively act to ban all the sites advocating anything done "for the lulz", it'd be a sweeping step toward restoring sanity on the Internet. Sometimes I think Internet trolls should be arrested and forced from that point forward to wear an electric collar. If they engage in behavior traditionally associated with trolling, or if their answer to the question "Are you now or have you ever been a fan of Encyclopedia Dramatica", they get progressively higher voltage until they either get killed or learn how to behave like a decent citizen.
 

Izakflashman

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Psh, keep the internet free. Avoid what you don't want to see, its as easy as that. Fuck corporations doing it for us (Or even us doing it for us. Ha ha.)
 

Arbre

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Izakflashman said:
Psh, keep the internet free. Avoid what you don't want to see, its as easy as that. Fuck corporations doing it for us (Or even us doing it for us. Ha ha.)
Or us doing it for them.