Jacek Piskozub wrote:
> Chris Hoess wrote:
>
>> Except that the address book, and the information in it tying together
>> email addresses, street addresses, names, and various other personal
>> data seems like it would be just as useful a thing to snatch for
>> marketing. Shall we remove the address book, too? It's clearly a
>> significant privacy risk...
>
>
> You can avoid writing such details in addressbook (actually I think most
> people never bothers). You cannot avoid opening URLs if you want to see
> the Web pages.
>
> So there is a workaround for the address book problem but not for the
> spyware problem.
There is a workaround. Don't install "spyware" that reads the URL from
the native field. Every single app on your machine probably uses native
fields. Every other browser you have ever installed keeps the URL in a
native field. Mozilla isn't doing anything different from any other
browser.
--Asa
