What your browser gives away...

[lee16]

polonus,

Indeed its very true you can trick the site, so always good to know there are ways to be excessively secure if wanted 

Also thanks for mentioning the Stealther Extension, not used it yet, plan on testing it for a while.

--lee

[polonus]

Hi lee19,

New version of Stealther was just being brought in. Just click on the Stealther button if you really have need for it, because it can hamper certain log ins on webforums (for which cookies are obligatory) and certain webproxies (which won't work without cookies). It is a nice add-on from a Slovenian developer Filip Bozic (FBI Slovenia): http://www.zadet.net/

I cannot comment this add-on better than Lifehacker did here, telling why he uses this add-on:
http://lifehacker.com/software/privacy/download-of-the-day-stealther-firefox-extension-174752.php


Enjoy this extension, my good friend,

Damian

[bob3160]

For me, adding more software delays to hide useless information makes no sense.
Who cares if people know where my ISP is located. 

[polonus]

Hi bob3160,

Well for you there would not have been any need for webproxies, anonymouser links and what have you.
I am not so much afraid of what people know about my ISP address, but what morons sit on my private data and what money they make out of it each year by selling my data without me having a clue. It is the one way side of affairs things work for us to-day, that is troubling me, bob. Where does the user come in sight? Where is the proverb nowadays "The customer is king", to-day the credo is take it or leave it.
The old Romans had a beautiful saying for this situation: "Quies custodiet custodes", meaning in plain English: "Who is guarding the guards", and I think some guards are never even guarded at all, it is not a free for all, but a free for some, that is why I like to guard my privacy in certain respects,

polonus

[bob3160]

And that's what makes the world go round.  Different strokes for different folks. 

[lee16]

And that's what makes the world go. Grin Different strokes for different folks.

100% correct, each to his own, me and polonus just like to be paranoid, its a hobby!

--lee

[drhayden1]

and polonus just like to be paranoid

how true...would love to see how many extensions and what and how long it takes him to go to one website

 

[polonus]

Hi Dan,

You would be surprised. I clock now how long it takes to load this avast webforum site for my build of FF:
Page created in 0.076 seconds with 11 queries. 25 critical security extensions is not that much. When I do a posting that a man was found with 200 extensions in his old Firefox browser that took 6 minutes to load, some people thing it is me,

Damian

[drhayden1]

25 critical security extensions is not that much.

not that much-just too much of a OVERKILL

200 extensions in his old Firefox browser

your new one has 225

[polonus]

Hi Dan,

I give you an idea of what I have aboard FF: Stealther, ABP, NoScript, Cookie Extension Manager, CookieCuller, User Agent, ViewAll JS, Netcraft, finjan and siteadvisor, DrWeb's hyperlink checker plug-in, Tamper Data, Show IP and ServerSpy, Distrust to mention the really important ones, TrackMeNot,

Damian

[drhayden1]

ok.....plus how many things working in the background

[polonus]

Hi Dan,

Got it.

Damian

[drhayden1]

Got it.

got what

[polonus]

Hi Dan,

The message in the picture you designed for me, it is true,

Damian

[drhayden1]

The message in the picture you designed for me, it is true

ok-besides the 225 extensions you have running-how many do you have running in the background-i'm really afaird to ask