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To: ProDeath who wrote (44638)5/10/2000 12:00:00 PM
From: The Duke of URL©  Read Replies (1) of 74651
 
Schmandull:

Here's a ridler for you, which weighs more, 23 pounds of your rhetoric or 1 ounce of facts?

from the United Kingdom, THE REGISTER:

Posted 10/05/2000 7:48am by Annie Kermath

Netscape's disappearing privacy code

Netscape has denied yanking privacy features from Mozilla builds under pressure from parent company - and the leading project sponsor of the open source browser project - AOL. The code in question allows users to block banner ads.

According to Netscape's Steve Morse, speculation is premature. The code is being included in builds, but has been publicly disabled. It can still be enabled in the user preference file that Mozilla (and hence Communicator) reads at start-up...

...However, the speculation doesn't seem to have been entirely irrational. After the code had already been marked as a problematic in an earlier bug report, Netscape's reaction to a subsequent bug report - noting the disappearance of the option from the menus - was the one that aroused conspirators' suspicions.
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theregister.co.uk
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