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MediaFire: controlling your browser?
It’s your computer and it’s no one’s busness but yours what you choose to do with web pages you visit. But according to the EFF ’s Fred von Lohmann, free file hosting provider MediaFire wouldn’t agree with that. It seems to think when you follow a link to download a file from its service, “it has the right to control your browser,” he says, citing it as yet another example of a web site owner forgetting this fundamental reality.
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