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<div>On Feb 27, 2009, at 7:27 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:</div><div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">At 7:17 AM -0800, 2/27/09, zapcat wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">On Feb 27, 2009, at 7:13 AM, Robert Ameeti wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">At 7:11 AM -0800, 2/25/09, zapcat wrote:</font></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <blockquote type="cite"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 30.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">in return for all of these must-have features, anyone know whether Safari is either less secure or more snoopy of its users?</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 20.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">Safari 4 is more secure and also more snoopy of its users.</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">Is there anything a person can do on the user side to defeat or reduce that snoopyness?</font></p> </blockquote><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Andale Mono; min-height: 11.0px"><br></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><font face="Andale Mono" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Andale Mono">Use the Safari menu's 'Private Browsing...'.</font></p> </blockquote></div><br><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>well that is a good tip..what I'm asking about is more in the "phone home" category.. I know lots of companies are obsessed with knowing exactly what we want to buy so that they can shove push data up our noses or "guide" our internet experience more to their liking.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>I'm not saying that Safari takes over; if it did, I'd flush it in a snap. But I don't want software that reports back to the mother ship information that I don't offer up myself.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>in that regard, I want my browser to be as dumb as an old coffee cup.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>zc</div></body></html>