Posts made by cwizard

Originally posted by leushino:

Originally posted by cwizard:

Sad, disturbing and frighting how willingly some people are to give up their privacy or, in this case, are they nothing more than shills for a questionable, at best, product?

... They're all compromising your privacy.

Ah, so that makes it alright for Opera to do the same? Are you an employee or share holder?
You are certainly entitled to your opinion, but after over 1,300 posts you are starting to sound like a shill.

shill (sh¹l) Slang. n. 1. One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle. --shill v. shilled, shill·ing, shills. --intr. 1. To act as a shill. --tr. 1. To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise). 2. To lure (a person) into a swindle.

Sad, disturbing and frighting how willingly some people are to give up their privacy or, in this case, are they nothing more than shills for a questionable, at best, product?

Originally posted by LDMartin1959:

Originally posted by Guest703:

You don't have to worry about Google tracking unless you're doing something illegal, and even then, they're not likely to do anything about it.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled that even one's silence can be used against one as "evidence of guilt". Not worry unless you're doing something illegal?? No, now everything is "evidence" against you: even NOT doing something illegal.Think of the scene in Little Big Man where Custer uses "logic" to prove that no matter what his scout said, Custer was able to twist it into meaning whatever he wanted.

Off topic, again, but if you are going to make statements like that your should understand the situation that lead to the decision,

"...Because he was "free to leave at that time," [App.14], they did not give him Miranda warnings. The police then asked Salinas questions. And Salinas answered until the police asked him whether the shotgun from his home "would match the shells recovered at the scene of the murder [Id., at 17.] At that point Salinas fell silent..."

http://teapartyorg.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=4301673:Topic:1611349

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Shall we keep this Opera-related, guys? The other discussion would technically belong in Discussions and Debates, over in the Lounge forums.

OK, then how do we turn off the tracking in Opera 15.xx?

I just installed and ran Opera_15.0.1147.148 and it would not connect to the outside world unless I let it first connect to 91.203.49.68 or 72.21.215.232.

Oh, BTW, I also cannot sign on here while using Opera 15, but have to use a different browser.

Originally posted by leushino:

Personally, I think you're all nuts... well... paranoid. If you think you can protect your privacy online, you're living in a dream world. :whistle:

Big Brother loves you. Ha!
Just as it is illegal to read someone's snail mail and stalk someone, so it should be on the Internet and it will have to come to that some day given the abuses we have already seen.
How do you feel about the stores you visit tracking your movements in the store via your smart phone?

Originally posted by LeoCG:

sitecheck.opera.com is for the fraud and malware check feature. Opera 12 and all versions with this feature calls that site.

Ah, but in Opera 12.x you can turn that so called "feature" off and the browser is still usable. If you block it with your firewall in Opera 12.x the browser is still usable.
Turning off "fraud and malware check" in Opera 15 is not an option. If you block it with your firewall in Opera 15, the browser will not connect to the outside world. If it can be turned off in Opera 15, would you be kind enough to point out how it is done?
Oh, and, BTW, "fraud and malware check" is just another method of tracking a user's activities.

Originally posted by sgunhouse:

Chromium is open source, and not owned by Google. Chrome, the Google browser, has extra stuff added beyond the basic Chromium package. The only thing in Opera which could count as reporting to Google is the search suggestions, but you can change search engines if you're worried about that.

But obviously we can't convince you. Believe what you will.

This thing, the chrome clone, aka, Opera 15.0.1147.141*, calls home and if you don't let it transmit data to, sitecheck2.opera.com [91.203.99.43] port 80, it flat refuses to make any connections. BTW, not sure about that last number 3, it could be a 5, in the address as sometimes I can't read my own hand writing. Probably is a 5.
You can, however, successfully block the auto update "feature."

I've read the user/disclosure agreement and they "claim" an ID number is assigned, but that it is not done in a manner that would identify an individual user. If you believe that, have I a bridge, a national moment of sorts, I can let you have cheap.....

*Opera 15.0.1147.141, running in Xp-sp3 inside of VirtualBox on Slackware64-current.