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Adding a couple of solutions to the bucket. The first is of course Disconnect [0], which does everything Ghostery does and more, minus their "compromised" busin

by r0h1n 13y ago

Adding a couple of solutions to the bucket. The first is of course Disconnect [0], which does everything Ghostery does and more, minus their "compromised" business model - The second is "Self-Destructing Cookies" [1], a browser add-on that deletes cookies as soon as a tab is closed. Those sites whose cookies you do not want deleted (like, say, HN), you can add to a whitelist. And yes, use AdBlock Edge instead of AdBlock Plus. [0] https://disconnect.me/ https://disconnect.me/ [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destruct...

dfc 13y ago
Disconnect is an "of course"? I looked at their issues page and saw these two open requests that are basic requirements for me: "Feature: option to manage Whitelist/Blacklist #272 -- The whitelist is being stored in JSON format in the FF prefs.js, this is really hard to manage manually. I'd like a basic dialog for Whitelist/Blacklist management of sites." "Element hiding in Firefox #237 -- Implemented?" Scanning the rest of the bugs it seems like they do a bad job of doing what HTTPS-Everywhere does extremely well and the graph of behavior-tracking websites looked like a crappy version of LightBeam.
- r0h1n 13y ago
  I personally don't use whitelisting, but yes, the lack of an element hiding element is felt. Just did a quick Google search and discovered it might be possible to use the "Element Hiding Helper" plugin with Adblock Edge: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/versions/?page=1#version-2.0.2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/...
joveian 13y ago
I like Ghostery so far, but the Self-Destructing Cookies add-on looks excellent, thanks :). I just wish that it (and Ghostery) would not make obnoxious and useless notifications by default. Easy enough to change, though...

by r0h1n 13y ago

dfc 13y ago

Disconnect is an "of course"? I looked at their issues page and saw these two open requests that are basic requirements for me: "Feature: option to manage Whitelist/Blacklist #272 -- The whitelist is being stored in JSON format in the FF prefs.js, this is really hard to manage manually. I'd like a basic dialog for Whitelist/Blacklist management of sites." "Element hiding in Firefox #237 -- Implemented?" Scanning the rest of the bugs it seems like they do a bad job of doing what HTTPS-Everywhere does extremely well and the graph of behavior-tracking websites looked like a crappy version of LightBeam.

r0h1n 13y ago
I personally don't use whitelisting, but yes, the lack of an element hiding element is felt. Just did a quick Google search and discovered it might be possible to use the "Element Hiding Helper" plugin with Adblock Edge: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/versions/?page=1#version-2.0.2 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/...

joveian 13y ago

I like Ghostery so far, but the Self-Destructing Cookies add-on looks excellent, thanks :). I just wish that it (and Ghostery) would not make obnoxious and useless notifications by default. Easy enough to change, though...