Hello,
Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online privacy
and enhance their computer security. I'm simply trying to give back to
the list for all the help I've received over the years. This is what I
do...
I use Firefox simply because it allows me to stay in control of
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent:
> Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online
> privacy and enhance their computer security.
If *only* safer browsing didn't have to venture into tinfoil hat
territory... But the moment you start shutting off the hazar
Just about every site I look at, doesn't work (at all, or usefully)
without scripting. And usually it's not just scripting from the site,
but it's scripting from half a dozen or more different services, some of
which will chainload more crap from yet another set of services. Even
if security w
Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent:
> I too have found browsing doesn't work without scripting yet still
> find NoScript essential. Here is my typical usage - like 5 minutes ago
> on cnn.com:
>
> Full protection of noscript = page doesn't load. 23 scripts blocked.
>
> 1 click
On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote:
[...]
>
> At which point, you may as well have not bothered with using NoScript,
> in the first place. Sure, this half measure has stopped some of the
> nonsense (the other things that would also have loaded), but you're
> still exposed to the risk that many
On 25/08/16 06:41, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 25 August 2016 at 03:14, Tim wrote:
[...]
I used to use NoScript up until a couple of years ago when loading
pages took extra time *because of* NoScript which is just irritating.
So I ditched NoScript (which over the years became *too much*) and
switc
On 08/25/16 08:41, Ahmad Samir wrote:
I used to use NoScript up until a couple of years ago when loading
pages took extra time*because of* NoScript which is just irritating.
So I ditched NoScript (which over the years became*too much*) and
switched to other methods to block troublesome javascrip
On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 04:09:26 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> After reading this I installed uMatrix and it apparently works well
> but for a few sites. the only way I can get any idea of what it is
> doint is in Firefox > Tools > Extensions > uMatfix > Logs which can
> display a lot of data for the p
On 08/27/16 11:58, stan wrote:
On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 04:09:26 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
After reading this I installed uMatrix and it apparently works well
but for a few sites. the only way I can get any idea of what it is
doint is in Firefox > Tools > Extensions > uMatfix > Logs which can
displ
On Sat, 27 Aug 2016 13:09:53 -0400
Bob Goodwin wrote:
> Now I can play with it and see if it will let me view the
> Weatherunderground radar image for Norfolk, actually Wakefield, Va. I
> also had trouble viewing my ISP data usage numbers since I have to
> stay under 25 GB per month I track tha
On 08/27/16 18:32, stan wrote:
Further experience with umatrix
has shown me that the on off button to the left of the vertical line
at the top, completely turns umatrix on or off for a site.
To turn on or off individual cells, it is enough to click in the cell,
and then the result shows under th
Thanks for sharing this!
Some more addons I use:
1. HTTPS Everywhere – force-redirects to HTTPS on a list (whitelist) of known
sites. Doesn't break much stuff. I think this is a must-have.
2. RequestPolicyContinued – can be configured to disable _all_ requests from
any server but the page source
Allegedly, on or about 31 August 2016, Christian Stadelmann sent:
> 1. HTTPS Everywhere – force-redirects to HTTPS on a list (whitelist)
> of known sites. Doesn't break much stuff. I think this is a must-have.
Actually, this is one *kind* of thing that I hate, because it causes
breakage all over t
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