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| Netscape Navigator Browser Snoops on |
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Searches |
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| Washington D.C. March 7, 2002 |
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| Anytime a Navigator 6 user performs a
search by |
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terms into the browser’s URL bar and |
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the Search button. . . the user data is sent |
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server at info.netscape.com using a URL |
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| forwarding
system. |
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| [In contrast] using Microsoft Explorer
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by Microsoft. |
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