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guelo
4129 days ago
I know at least Mint does DNS and browser plugin ad injection.
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swhipple
4129 days ago
Is this documented somewhere? I tried searching for a couple combinations of "linux mint dns ad injection", but couldn't find anything relevant.
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guelo
4129 days ago
I was referring to their use of OpenDNS
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=90&t=128529
And hijacking Google search on Firefox,
http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=142
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vertex-four
4129 days ago
OpenDNS hasn't done ad pages for non-existent domains in
ages
. As for "hijacking" Google search, that's simply setting a different default - you can change it and nothing tries to stop you, and OS upgrades won't change it back (I believe).
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sroerick
4129 days ago
Aww, really? This is the first I've heard of this.
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davidgerard
4129 days ago
No, not really.
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