Author Topic: Privacy? I don't have anything to hide. (Read 40966 times)

polonus · « **Reply #60 on:** October 19, 2016, 12:57:39 AM »

Ha die Erik,

I see the SearX engine team has not made their position clear about the Yahoo user abuse yet. I see they still have their results listed.

What I miss on search sites like searX, Ixquick are the direct implementation of tools like AOS, Bitdefender's TrafficLight and WOT or Netcraft Extension for instancde. All this is understandable, because that would mean sharing with third parties.

One could always use such services from a drop-down-menu inside the browser, like DrWeb's URL checker, VT check, block a URL, etc.
and my Tampermonkey scripts have access there.

groetjes van je avast-forum vriend,

Damianus

P.S. Proef op de som, tested and no cookies: http://www.cookiechecker.nl/check-cookies.php?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearx.laquadrature.net%2F

pol

polonus · « **Reply #61 on:** October 19, 2016, 10:28:31 PM »

Profiling becomes futile with this extension on top of u-Block Origin: AdNauseam -> https://adnauseam.io/

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AdNauseam quietly clicks on every blocked ad, registering a visit on the ad networks databases.
As the data gathered shows an omnivorous click-stream, user profiling, targeting and surveillance becomes futile.

Or install TrackMeNot that generates random search engine requests,
but I doubt filters cannót discriminate it's traffic from the real McCoy

polonus

Rednose · « **Reply #62 on:** October 19, 2016, 10:48:39 PM »

Hi Damian

Sending ( a lot of ) false data with an extension like AdNauseam is indeed an interesting privacy strategy.
Random Agent Spoofer also fits in that category.

Greetz, Red.

Rednose · « **Reply #63 on:** October 24, 2016, 04:59:04 PM »

Kill Analytics seems to be an interesting upcomming ( Chrome ) extension that sends false data to break web analytics platforms https://hello-kill.github.io

Greetz, Red.

polonus · « **Reply #64 on:** November 01, 2016, 11:56:44 PM »

Hot news in Germany, how your extensions gonna sell all of your browser meta-data (profile) to third parties.

WOT for instance seems doing this, but that is not the only extension into data mining. WOT as to now did not react.
Read for instance at [3] other two links in German language.
[1] http://www.ghacks.net/2016/11/01/browsing-history-sold/
[2] https://www.heise.de/security/meldung/Millionen-Surf-Profile-Daten-stammen-angeblich-auch-von-Browser-Addon-WOT-3453820.html
[3] https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Daten-zu-Surfverhalten-von-Millionen-Deutschen-als-kostenlose-Probe-3451556.html

When I looked into a defending extension like extension defender - I found their website IP blocked for me by firehole listing added to my uBlock subscription: Found in: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/firehol/blocklist-ipsets/master/firehol_webserver.netset
Actually the whole range 69.39.236.56^ became blocked. Re: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=https://www.extensiondefender.com

Who will stop such predator-commercialization of our data profiles? I fear no-one to stand up for us.
Read here: http://www.labnol.org/internet/sold-chrome-extension/28377/

A list of extensions known to do this: https://discuss.howtogeek.com/t/warning-your-browser-extensions-are-spying-on-you/12394

Nice tip from Tom Hawack (info credits to him):

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Using uBlockO on Firefox I've removed chrome-extension-scheme from the white-list and added it as follows to 'My Rules' :

chrome-extension-scheme * 3p noop
chrome-extension-scheme * 3p-frame noop
chrome-extension-scheme * 3p-script noop

This limits an add-on's prosperity -- if applicable -- to communicate beyond the rules assigned to uBlockO,

I did the same by the way with behind-the-scene and data-scheme : no blank-check.

polonus

polonus · « **Reply #65 on:** November 02, 2016, 01:40:57 PM »

Strange that the WOT EULA dialog was removed in an earlier 2011 version of the add-on:
See firefox releases: Version 20110704.1-signed
Released July 4, 2011 430.1 kB
Works with Firefox 3.0 and later, SeaMonkey 2.0b2 and later
- Improved startup speed
- Added ko-KR translation
- Removed the modal EULA dialog
- Reduced the add-on size significantly by simplifying included images
Source code released under GNU General Public License, version 3.0

This is considered a great sin by Google, where they did not pay attention to it then, was it secretely removed?

polonus

=Snake= · « **Reply #66 on:** November 02, 2016, 09:33:08 PM »

Quote from: polonus on November 02, 2016, 01:40:57 PM

This is considered a great sin by Google, where they did not pay attention to it then, was it secretely removed?

polonus

And what does it make better? Onlyvery few things are functionable without G....e! Before this didn't change, you'll have no better opton.

=Snake=

polonus · « **Reply #67 on:** November 04, 2016, 02:49:31 PM »

Nice extension to try out in Google Chrome browser is configurable WebBoost.
It makes your pages load faster by blocking pop-ups and bootstrap elements etc.

polonus

Rednose · « **Reply #68 on:** November 06, 2016, 01:09:07 AM »

Thnx Damian

Webboost was new for me.
I don't use Chrome, but ( with the help of Download Chrome Extension ) it works perfectly on Opera as well

Greetz, Red.

bob3160 · « **Reply #69 on:** November 06, 2016, 02:45:33 PM »

Quote from: Rednose on November 06, 2016, 01:09:07 AM

Thnx Damian

Webboost was new for me.
I don't use Chrome, but ( with the help of Download Chrome Extension ) it works perfectly on Opera as well

Greetz, Red.

( https://addons.opera.com/en/extensions/details/download-chrome-extension-9/ )

polonus · « **Reply #70 on:** November 12, 2016, 04:57:26 PM »

How that your smartphone apps may spy on you, you can see through the working of a MathJax demo: https://cdn.mathjax.org/mathjax/latest/test/sample-dynamic.html

Read how you give away all your data on your smartphone when you agree to certain app admission rights:
http://www.npo.nl/3doc-addicted-to-my-phone/24-10-2016/AT_2068495

A majority of users do not even ever pay attentionto what they agree to the apps may do on the phone,
before downloading an app.

And these data then also can be bought by Nato's StratCom Strategic Communication Laboratories,
when you have given apps access to your private live via Social Media apps
and SCL can now target individuals with pinpoint precision (via Whatsapp, Farcebook etc.)

polonus

polonus · « **Reply #71 on:** November 14, 2016, 03:16:38 PM »

Windows 10 spying on you via your mic and webcam:
The story: http://techrights.org/wiki/index.php/Microsoft_and_the_NSA

Oh and a way to be form of protected against this: https://github.com/Nummer/Destroy-Windows-10-Spying/releases

polonus

polonus · « **Reply #72 on:** December 01, 2016, 03:13:38 PM »

A good decent ad-blocker, like uBlock0 with the right recent subscriptions,
can be a mean and mighthy weapon to protect your intergrity and privacy online.

These here are marvellous resources and cover almost all of the abuse theater:
https://iplists.firehol.org/?ipset=cleanmx_phishing

But also see all IP lists monitored there.

This might inspire you to keep this bot out: https://www.unicom.com/blog/entry/108

polonus

polonus · « **Reply #73 on:** December 10, 2016, 10:28:09 PM »

The ultimate resource for various filter lists
to subscribe to with your adblocker of choice, mine is uBlock origin:

https://filterlists.com/

Brew your own formula to get clear of ads, malware sites and other annoyances.

enjoy, my good friends, enjoy,

polonus

polonus · « **Reply #74 on:** January 14, 2017, 03:51:45 PM »

In this way you are under surveillance 24 on 24: https://browserprint.info/blog/fingerprintingDefence

polonus