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Today's Topics:
1. Re: ISPs consolidating - SPAM - Two Factor authencation
(Marghanita da Cruz)
2. Re: ISPs consolidating - SPAM - Two Factor authencation
(Marghanita da Cruz)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:46:17 +1000
From: Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] ISPs consolidating - SPAM - Two Factor
authencation
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 8/18/25 14:10, David wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 August 2025 14:19:40 AEST Christian Heinrich wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 12:26, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Will have a look but currently trying to get Firefox to log me out (delete
>>> cookies) when I close browser. I had this setup before, but the cookies
>>> seem to be persisting across Browser sessions.
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
>> might be the root cause.
> IMO the emerging Firefox Profile Manager has an interesting architectural
> justification which rests on Internet historical development.
>
> The original browsers. such as NCSA's Mosaic, were essentially simple HTML
> interpreters. To quote Wikipedia and with apologies to Linkers with long
> memories: "Precursors to the web browser emerged in the form of hyperlinked
> applications during the mid and late 1980s, and following these, (Sir) Tim
> Berners-Lee is credited with developing, in 1990, both the first web server,
> and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb [...] The explosion in
> popularity of the Web was triggered in September 1993 by NCSA Mosaic, a
> graphical browser [...] aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical
> users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike
> previous browser designs."
>
> In the intervening ~40 years business has exploited the potential of this
> technology but sometimes with little ethical consideration, to the point
> where individual privacy now seems to have become the driving force of
> browser development (and of the Internet more broadly). Look at the current
> issies around proof of age for social-networking sites.
>
> Firefox' Profile Manager is intended to contribute by stopping cross-site
> linking, which enables marketers to build a comprehensive picture of an
> individuals' financial situation, interests, the identity of their friends,
> their major purchases and others being considered, their browsing history,
> etc. It does so by confining ALL data created by a given site to its own
> dedicated area, rather than by putting all cookies somewhere, all cached data
> somewhere else, and so on. However it doesn't protect against someone with
> system privileges or malware such as root-kits, keyloggers, spyware, etc., or
> bugs in Firefox' own code of course.
>
> It's easy to invoke the profile manager by entering <about:profiles> in the
> Firefox search bar, or by exiting Firefox and running <firefox -P> from a CLI
> prompt.
>
> Well that's my understanding anyway, and sorry for the lecture...!
>
> Cheers,
> _DavidL._
Thanks David,After looking at profile and turning stuff off and back
again and internet connection dropouts due to rain. I think now working,
as I desired.Marghanita
Christian, I also had a look at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
and I guess I should have RTFM before experimenting. Thanks also, Marghanita
--
Marghanita da Cruz
Telephone: 0414-869202
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://ramin.com.au
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2025 13:46:17 +1000
From: Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected]
Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [LINK] ISPs consolidating - SPAM - Two Factor
authencation
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
On 8/18/25 14:10, David wrote:
> On Thursday, 14 August 2025 14:19:40 AEST Christian Heinrich wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 at 12:26, Marghanita da Cruz <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>> Will have a look but currently trying to get Firefox to log me out (delete
>>> cookies) when I close browser. I had this setup before, but the cookies
>>> seem to be persisting across Browser sessions.
>> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
>> might be the root cause.
> IMO the emerging Firefox Profile Manager has an interesting architectural
> justification which rests on Internet historical development.
>
> The original browsers. such as NCSA's Mosaic, were essentially simple HTML
> interpreters. To quote Wikipedia and with apologies to Linkers with long
> memories: "Precursors to the web browser emerged in the form of hyperlinked
> applications during the mid and late 1980s, and following these, (Sir) Tim
> Berners-Lee is credited with developing, in 1990, both the first web server,
> and the first web browser, called WorldWideWeb [...] The explosion in
> popularity of the Web was triggered in September 1993 by NCSA Mosaic, a
> graphical browser [...] aiming to bring multimedia content to non-technical
> users, and therefore included images and text on the same page, unlike
> previous browser designs."
>
> In the intervening ~40 years business has exploited the potential of this
> technology but sometimes with little ethical consideration, to the point
> where individual privacy now seems to have become the driving force of
> browser development (and of the Internet more broadly). Look at the current
> issies around proof of age for social-networking sites.
>
> Firefox' Profile Manager is intended to contribute by stopping cross-site
> linking, which enables marketers to build a comprehensive picture of an
> individuals' financial situation, interests, the identity of their friends,
> their major purchases and others being considered, their browsing history,
> etc. It does so by confining ALL data created by a given site to its own
> dedicated area, rather than by putting all cookies somewhere, all cached data
> somewhere else, and so on. However it doesn't protect against someone with
> system privileges or malware such as root-kits, keyloggers, spyware, etc., or
> bugs in Firefox' own code of course.
>
> It's easy to invoke the profile manager by entering <about:profiles> in the
> Firefox search bar, or by exiting Firefox and running <firefox -P> from a CLI
> prompt.
>
> Well that's my understanding anyway, and sorry for the lecture...!
>
> Cheers,
> _DavidL._
Thanks David,After looking at profile and turning stuff off and back
again and internet connection dropouts due to rain. I think now working,
as I desired.Marghanita
Christian, I also had a look at
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-remove-switch-firefox-profiles
and I guess I should have RTFM before experimenting. Thanks also, Marghanita
--
Marghanita da Cruz
Telephone: 0414-869202
Email: [email protected]
Website: http://ramin.com.au
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