ShowIP Firefox add-on may send your browsing habits to marketing firm
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Security firm Sophos is reporting that ShowIP, a Firefox add-on designed to tell you the IP address of the website you are visiting, might be exposing your browsing habits to a German marketing firm. By default, the add-on sends the address of the page you're visiting to a number of sites that can resolve the IP, and allows you to add and remove sites as you wish. What Sophos has drawn attention to, however, is that another site, ip2info.org, is being sent addresses as well. »read more
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