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Check out RequestPolicy sometime if you're concerned about GA and other tracking and went through the trouble to bit bucket it in hosts; it's really nice to be
by Programmatic 11y ago
Check out RequestPolicy sometime if you're concerned about GA and other tracking and went through the trouble to bit bucket it in hosts; it's really nice to be able to set which other sites any given site can contact, and I trust it more than the other curated options like Ghostery etc. since I can see for myself where each site is allowed to go.
- Sir_Substance 11y agocheck out noscript then!
- sp332 11y agoRequestPolicy and other tools like HTTPS Switchboard or even Ghostery let you block all content from certain domains, not just JS. They won't even load a tracking pixel. RP is whitelist-based and it can take some time to enable all the domains you actually use. Ghostery is blacklist-based and targets known tracking domains.
- gorhill 11y ago> other tools like HTTPS Switchboard I will take this opportunity to remind people that uMatrix is now available for Firefox (works on Nightly): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/umatrix/
- shock 11y agoThanks a lot for porting uMatrix to Firefox. I've been waiting for this since the first time I used HTTPSwitchboard for Chrome!
- Sir_Substance 11y agoI run Ghostery as well, but I learned something new, never heard of tracking pixels. I've added RequestPolicy to my suite!
- Programmatic 11y agoGhostery should be blocking that sort of content (that's the point), but I really like NoScript and RequestPolicy in conjunction with each other for the control it gives me. Configure firefox to ask to allow flash, and you've got a pretty complete privacy toolset.
- Silhouette 11y agoUnfortunately the Firefox 38 update broke RequestPolicy. There are other extensions that do a similar job, including a volunteer effort to continue the original extension, but right now none of them seems quite as neat and reliable as the original.
- Programmatic 11y agoIs RP not being maintained then? :/ It's one of the tools that makes me actually like FireFox.
- the8472 11y agothere's a maintained fork: https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy https://github.com/RequestPolicyContinued/requestpolicy
- SSLy 11y agouMatrix has been recently released for FF. Basically, it's a better RP https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
- Silhouette 11y agoThat looks similar to existing plug-ins like Policeman. These are great for technically-minded power users who understand the implications, but IMHO they far too complicated for "normal" users who just want a bit of added privacy and security without spending half their lives tweaking configurations.
- gorhill 11y agoIf you stick to clicking only the hostnames, it's no different than RequestPolicy. Otherwise there is uBlock's dynamic filtering which does essentially the same thing as RequestPolicy: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-default-deny https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Dynamic-filtering:-de...
- the8472 11y agoSpeaking of privacy extensions, I vaguely recall some addon that compartmentalizes cookie/local storage between tabs. Say I open a youtube.com and it wants to load cross-origin content from google (and thus sends cookies to google) then it can use different cookies than those used when I browse google search directly. But I can't find it anymore.