> business model...
Just thinking aloud here... Perhaps I'm only stating the obvious, however, THE business model lies in collecting user data
irregardless of any other feel-good public relations strategy these companies extol. No browser -none- (of the 'big 4' chrome/ie/firefox/opera) are your buddies & should be considered predacious as they've plainly said as much...
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http://www.opera.com/privacy#web>
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https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/>
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/i...vacy-statement>
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http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/>
Then of you have hijinks such as 'pocket'...
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http://dustri.org/b/firefox-youre-su...ay-around.html>
or (read article carefully) noscript:
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http://thehackerblog.com/the-noscrip...s-zendcdn-net/>
The future is here & users are for sale indiscriminately. A well populated /etc/hosts file will stop most of the non-sense...
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http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm>