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So what's a good alternative (Firefox)? I'm using GlimmerBlocker, but due to being a proxy, it can't filter HTTPS pages. Adblock Edge looks like a decrapified

by sdfjkl 13y ago

So what's a good alternative (Firefox)? I'm using GlimmerBlocker, but due to being a proxy, it can't filter HTTPS pages. Adblock Edge looks like a decrapified fork of Adblock Plus.

gasull 13y ago
Firefox addons for privacy and security with usable settings: - AdBlock Edge. Filter subscriptions: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Disable Malware, Fanboy's Annoyance List, Prebake - NoScript. Use "allow scripts globally" or otherwise most websites won't work. It will still protect against know attacks. - Cookie Monster. Then set global/default preference to saving cookies for session only. - FireGloves. Uncheck "disable plugin and mimeType lists" in Cloak Settings. - HTTPS Everywhere - LastPass
- shaggy 13y ago
  Is there some mistake in your NoScript item? Installing the plug-in and then using "allow scripts globally" is the equivalent of never installing the plug-in. It provides almost no value at all when run that way.
  - gasull 13y ago
    No. It stills protects against known attacks, like XSS attacks. If you block scripts by default you'll have to configure what scripts to allow every time you visit a new site, or every time the site adds new assets.
- 83a 13y ago
  requestpolicy <- simply blocks all traffic to external webserver
  - gasull 13y ago
    RequestPolicy suffers of the same problem as NoScript with default settings: it blocks everything and you have to waste time configuring what JS files are allowed in each site you visit. Your browsing becomes 10,000% more inefficient.
eliasmacpherson 13y ago
I use noscript as well as adblock plus.
ra 13y ago
Ghostery. Can't recommend it highly enough; also works on Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE.
- asb 13y ago
  Ghostery users should be aware of: http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to... (no judgement on the practice implied, just flagging it as something for potential users to consider).
  - JonnieCache 13y ago
    Ghostery alternative: https://disconnect.me https://disconnect.me
    - jrochkind1 13y ago
      Disconnect has generally been working better for me than Ghostery did too; although some parts of the Disconnect UI I still find more confusing and harder to use than analagous parts of ghostery.
    - fakeer 13y ago
      Last time I checked it was not fully open source. Is it yet?
    - WickyNilliams 13y ago
      And open source apparently! https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect
  - nivla 13y ago
    But isn't that only if you enable Ghost Rank, which is disabled by default?
    - dombili 13y ago
      That's correct.
chmod775 13y ago
I just founds this, it's a fork of Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?sr...
chalst 13y ago
The easiest to audit is to change /etc/hosts to send malware sites to 127.0.0.1. I use Dan Pollock's hosts file, which is well-commented: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ I keep a Git repository with the contents that I update from time to time - this makes it easier to do diffs against past versions: https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork
- deleted 13y ago
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  - chalst 13y ago
    On the hardware I've looked at, loopback requests are handled in well under a microsecond - I guess this case is not worth optimising. On Linux, 127.0.0.0 is a broadcast address, while on Windows, it is a sink address.
- dbcooper 13y ago
  If you want a smaller HOSTS file (useful with Windows) that only targets advertisement and tracking servers, I've found HP Hosts' ad_servers.asp list to be good. http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp
mjn 13y ago
I use the venerable (but still actively maintained) Privoxy, which is a proxy but still does most of what I want on HTTPS pages. It can't examine the page contents themselves, but it can block 3rd-party requests by hostname, which gets most of the web-bugs and such.
- claudius 13y ago
  I had some problems with loading times/pipelining in Opera (12.x) and Privoxy and hence changed to AdBlock (which appears to be the same as AdBlock Chrome referred to above). Browsing became much smoother afterwards.
  - anoymous9352 13y ago
    Privoxy is associated with SPI, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. A far cry from that shady AdBlock garbage. If you sacrifice privacy/security for convenience, don't be surprised when it has later repercussions. Privoxy is also highly configurable unlike AdBlock. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be at the mercy of some jerkoff named Wladimir, who seems to have basically zero accountability and a very lax sense of ethics.

by sdfjkl 13y ago

So what's a good alternative (Firefox)? I'm using GlimmerBlocker, but due to being a proxy, it can't filter HTTPS pages. Adblock Edge looks like a decrapified fork of Adblock Plus.

gasull 13y ago

Firefox addons for privacy and security with usable settings: - AdBlock Edge. Filter subscriptions: EasyList, EasyPrivacy, Disable Malware, Fanboy's Annoyance List, Prebake - NoScript. Use "allow scripts globally" or otherwise most websites won't work. It will still protect against know attacks. - Cookie Monster. Then set global/default preference to saving cookies for session only. - FireGloves. Uncheck "disable plugin and mimeType lists" in Cloak Settings. - HTTPS Everywhere - LastPass

shaggy 13y ago
Is there some mistake in your NoScript item? Installing the plug-in and then using "allow scripts globally" is the equivalent of never installing the plug-in. It provides almost no value at all when run that way.
- gasull 13y ago
  No. It stills protects against known attacks, like XSS attacks. If you block scripts by default you'll have to configure what scripts to allow every time you visit a new site, or every time the site adds new assets.
83a 13y ago
requestpolicy <- simply blocks all traffic to external webserver
- gasull 13y ago
  RequestPolicy suffers of the same problem as NoScript with default settings: it blocks everything and you have to waste time configuring what JS files are allowed in each site you visit. Your browsing becomes 10,000% more inefficient.

eliasmacpherson 13y ago

I use noscript as well as adblock plus.

ra 13y ago

Ghostery. Can't recommend it highly enough; also works on Chrome, Safari, Opera and IE.

asb 13y ago
Ghostery users should be aware of: http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to-advertisers-2013-6 http://www.businessinsider.com/evidon-sells-ghostery-data-to... (no judgement on the practice implied, just flagging it as something for potential users to consider).
- JonnieCache 13y ago
  Ghostery alternative: https://disconnect.me https://disconnect.me
  - jrochkind1 13y ago
    Disconnect has generally been working better for me than Ghostery did too; although some parts of the Disconnect UI I still find more confusing and harder to use than analagous parts of ghostery.
  - fakeer 13y ago
    Last time I checked it was not fully open source. Is it yet?
  - WickyNilliams 13y ago
    And open source apparently! https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect https://github.com/disconnectme/disconnect
- nivla 13y ago
  But isn't that only if you enable Ghost Rank, which is disabled by default?
  - dombili 13y ago
    That's correct.

chmod775 13y ago

I just founds this, it's a fork of Adblock Plus: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/?sr...

chalst 13y ago

The easiest to audit is to change /etc/hosts to send malware sites to 127.0.0.1. I use Dan Pollock's hosts file, which is well-commented: http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/ I keep a Git repository with the contents that I update from time to time - this makes it easier to do diffs against past versions: https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork https://github.com/chalst/pollockhostsfork

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- chalst 13y ago
  On the hardware I've looked at, loopback requests are handled in well under a microsecond - I guess this case is not worth optimising. On Linux, 127.0.0.0 is a broadcast address, while on Windows, it is a sink address.
dbcooper 13y ago
If you want a smaller HOSTS file (useful with Windows) that only targets advertisement and tracking servers, I've found HP Hosts' ad_servers.asp list to be good. http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp http://hosts-file.net/ad_servers.asp

mjn 13y ago

I use the venerable (but still actively maintained) Privoxy, which is a proxy but still does most of what I want on HTTPS pages. It can't examine the page contents themselves, but it can block 3rd-party requests by hostname, which gets most of the web-bugs and such.

claudius 13y ago
I had some problems with loading times/pipelining in Opera (12.x) and Privoxy and hence changed to AdBlock (which appears to be the same as AdBlock Chrome referred to above). Browsing became much smoother afterwards.
- anoymous9352 13y ago
  Privoxy is associated with SPI, which is a 501(c)(3) non-profit. A far cry from that shady AdBlock garbage. If you sacrifice privacy/security for convenience, don't be surprised when it has later repercussions. Privoxy is also highly configurable unlike AdBlock. I don't know about you, but I don't want to be at the mercy of some jerkoff named Wladimir, who seems to have basically zero accountability and a very lax sense of ethics.