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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by londons_explore on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:10AM (#24352830)
As you type, the name is still being sent to Google for search suggestions with every keystroke until the final "/".

If you prefix with "http://", no requests are made to Google (except "h", "ht", "htt", "http", and "http:")

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by reificator on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @09:16AM (#24352885)
> If you prefix with "http://", no requests are made to Google (except "h", "ht", "htt", "http", and "http:")

This seems surprising to me. Can you back up this claim?

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by andinus on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:25PM (#24354776)
If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent. Firefox disables them in Private Browsing mode for this reason.

- https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-suggestions-fire...

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by reificator on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @12:52PM (#24355104)
No I get that part.

I guess I just had a different interpretation of "no requests are made to Google". It seems "no requests" was intended to be "no search suggestion requests" and not "no requests that leak this information to google".

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:10PM (#24355301)
> If you have search suggestions enabled then "http:" will be sent

What's the point of sending those characters?

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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by antsar on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:28PM (#24355553)
Search Suggestions. You typed "h", maybe you want to search for "harpoons". "ht" might suggest "htaccess". "http" might be a search for "httpie". etc.
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Re:Why I Actively Discourage Online Tooling like jwt.io and ... by MaxBarraclough on Wednesday September 02, 2020 @01:34PM (#24355620)
Yes, of course :-P
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