You'll get three options for (dis)allowing sites to store LSOs on your computer.Load any page with a Flash object embedded in it and right clicking it to get the Flash context menu.You can block LSOs by doing the following: The best thing about NoScript is that it'll stop almost all (all?) "drive by attacks" which are one of the most common sources of malware on the web. This'll stop any Javascript based tracking but won't stop tracking via invisible GIF tracker images, IP address, Flash Local Shared Objects (LSOs), or session cookies. I haven't tried AdBlockPlus but I do use NoScript ( ) which is a Javascript "whitelist" filter that prevents Javascript from running from any site at anytime unless you give it specific permission to do so either on a permanent/persistent basis, or on a temporary session basis. They don't really enforce much privacy and are close to ineffective since search giants like Google have 50+ different ways of identifying your computer and therefore keeping track of your browsing histories across multiple sites. "Privacy protectors" like Ghostery and Abine only do things like delete cookies after sessions and ask search engines to "play nice". Now, whenever you type keyword searches on the URL address bar, it'll send the query to DuckDuckGo instead of Google. On the value column of the keyword.URL row type or paste.A long list of parameters comes up with a search bar on top.Click through all the warnings, like "Here be dragons!".Type about:config in the URL address bar.when you type searches directly into the URL address bar, you can do this: I'll see where we go with Chromium or Iron (or Chrome if we really have to as long as we can move on from IE8.) If I can go someway to stopping our user's becoming indentured serfs then all the better.Īnyone who's interested in changing their default search provider, i.e. That's a good start for me but there's no way I'd try and sell all that lot to our Technical unit. It'll be interesting to see what adblock and ghostery miss out. I've also ditched Gmail for, Google search for and will be installing on my smartphone in the near future. I'll have another look at Tor. Portable Firefox will also run off a network drive whereas chromium browsers wont or will but reports unresponsive script errors.įor privacy I use firefox with and extensions. It doesn't automatically use the networks proxy like chromium based browsers (which makes them a good candidate for network rollout) and allows me more flexibility on network logins - good for testing. I'm sticking with portable firefox for myself )
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