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In my experience Adblock Plus, NoScript and RequestPolicy allow much more control than Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Adblock is even easier to use if you install t

by dfc 13y ago

In my experience Adblock Plus, NoScript and RequestPolicy allow much more control than Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Adblock is even easier to use if you install the Element Hider Helper.

xenophonf 13y ago
RequestPolicy is pretty awesome. I've switched to Adblock Edge, which hopefully protects me better than Adblock Plus. Unfortunately, the more I delve into web privacy, the more I think that non-technical users are screwed. How on earth are mere mortals supposed to protect themselves when someone skilled in the art has a difficult time getting web sites to work in a privacy-maximal fashion?
- djent 13y ago
  I had to install Adblock on my mother's laptop after she visited a webpage with a malicious advertisement. I went ahead and installed HTTPS Everywhere and Ghostery while I was at it. Non-technical users are completely up the creek without a paddle.
- newman314 13y ago
  The combination of RequestPolicy, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere and Adblock Plus breaks formatting The Verge for me. I have yet to find a solution. Looking at the RequestPolicy log does not present an immediately obvious solution.
mutemule 13y ago
I honestly don't understand why RequestPolicy doesn't get more love from the pro-privacy crowd. It does exactly what they want: prevents sites from issuing HTTP requests to other sites. I once used a rather ambitious collection of addons, and I've since reduced it to just NoScript and RequestPolicy. And NoScript actually allows Javascript everywhere; it just has the XSS filter enabled. As a result, the vast majority of websites (with a categorical exception, below) work without any fiddling, and I don't see any third-party content at all: advertisements, share/like/+1 buttons, etc. My only complaint about RequestPolicy is its lack of wildcard domain matching. I'd love to allow access from all sites to 'x.cloudfront.net', but that's not possible in the current version. (Rumour is that this is being fixed, and while I can confirm that wildcards are supported in the alpha version, it's definitely not ready for real-world usage yet.) Unfortunately, this means that some sites just don't work right; eg. 'x.blogspot.ca' always renders oddly, because they all pull from 'blogblog.com' and 'blogger.com'.

by dfc 13y ago

In my experience Adblock Plus, NoScript and RequestPolicy allow much more control than Adblock Plus and Ghostery. Adblock is even easier to use if you install the Element Hider Helper.

xenophonf 13y ago

RequestPolicy is pretty awesome. I've switched to Adblock Edge, which hopefully protects me better than Adblock Plus. Unfortunately, the more I delve into web privacy, the more I think that non-technical users are screwed. How on earth are mere mortals supposed to protect themselves when someone skilled in the art has a difficult time getting web sites to work in a privacy-maximal fashion?

djent 13y ago
I had to install Adblock on my mother's laptop after she visited a webpage with a malicious advertisement. I went ahead and installed HTTPS Everywhere and Ghostery while I was at it. Non-technical users are completely up the creek without a paddle.
newman314 13y ago
The combination of RequestPolicy, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere and Adblock Plus breaks formatting The Verge for me. I have yet to find a solution. Looking at the RequestPolicy log does not present an immediately obvious solution.

mutemule 13y ago

I honestly don't understand why RequestPolicy doesn't get more love from the pro-privacy crowd. It does exactly what they want: prevents sites from issuing HTTP requests to other sites. I once used a rather ambitious collection of addons, and I've since reduced it to just NoScript and RequestPolicy. And NoScript actually allows Javascript everywhere; it just has the XSS filter enabled. As a result, the vast majority of websites (with a categorical exception, below) work without any fiddling, and I don't see any third-party content at all: advertisements, share/like/+1 buttons, etc. My only complaint about RequestPolicy is its lack of wildcard domain matching. I'd love to allow access from all sites to 'x.cloudfront.net', but that's not possible in the current version. (Rumour is that this is being fixed, and while I can confirm that wildcards are supported in the alpha version, it's definitely not ready for real-world usage yet.) Unfortunately, this means that some sites just don't work right; eg. 'x.blogspot.ca' always renders oddly, because they all pull from 'blogblog.com' and 'blogger.com'.