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kartal:
I am using peerguardian2 beside my firewall for blocking and tracking. One thing I see in peerguardian window is that everytime I hit enter there is n port 80 connection to opera owned ip adress which is
http://213.236.208.60/ . This may sound paranoid but this does not sound right to me. Can anyone else confirm this? This is pretty much active tracking and I have no idea about the content of the packets.
Why would Opera send http request to opera servers everytime I hit enter. This is not an update check.



http://whois.domaintools.com/213.236.208.60

jgpaiva:
That's pretty simple :)
It's to prevent phishing. Everytime you open a site, opera sends the url to the opera servers, and if that site is reported in phishtank, opera displays a warning.

I believe that behaviour can be configured, but I can't remember where.

Lashiec:
Yes, Opera is tracking every movement you do on the Intertubes, and selling that information to the highest bidder (which usually is Google) ;D

For more details, refer to the documentation (including how to disable it).

kartal:
Actually I do not find it funny that this behaviour is enabled by default to be honest. Just because of this particular behaviour I will no longer use Opera. I can take care of my own security I do not need addtional tracking to ensure my own security really.

Also http://www.opera.com/docs/fraudprotection/  cannot pass my proxy security standards(blocked by peerguardian), I have no reason to rely on their unsecure fraudprotection help page :)

jgpaiva:
Actually, both ie and firefox have phishing protection, but firefox downloads a file with banned sites (every 30 minutes). IMO, that's a better way to do it, but I sure wouldn't stop using opera for this reason :)

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