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USCBass
Posted on 05/30/2014 11:24:40 AM PDT by UScbass
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To: qam1
Hmmm. I use Opera 12.17 with Ghostery to block the Google Analytics and other junk. I don’t have these issues. I have a Bookmarks window to the L of the screen permitting always-on access to bookmarks. The pop-ups and cookie settings are configurable.
I also have the TOR browser.
I’m going to check out the Pale Moon since it’s FR-ecomended.
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:49:15 AM PDT
by
Justa
To: UScbass
Waterfox and Ixquick
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:49:25 AM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red Badger
How is Netscape nowadays? I don’t think I’ve seen that one in nearly a decade.
To: Sopater
Firefox+AdBlock+NoScript+Ghostery should keep the vast majority of issues at bay.
A good, maintained firewall as well.
VPNs through several proxies using encrypted tunnels.
Random connection points through public hotspots (that would also be encrypted)
All in all, it would probably be more trouble than it's worth for most people.
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:52:23 AM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: Sopater; UScbass
LOL..
Tor is a Fedgov product; it’s use is target for US operatives inside repressive countries can use the innernet and get past local country blocking of websites, and also make it difficult for local country state secret police monitors to track down the operatives.
A large number of the Tor relay servers are “suspected” of being hosted by US intel.
Running large number of the relay servers would, of course, enable a person to defeat the system.
Tor is great if you’re not concerned about NSA seeing what you’re doing.
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:52:23 AM PDT
by
PieterCasparzen
(We have to fix things ourselves)
To: RayChuang88
Zorin 8.1, handcuffed Chrome, Ghostery.
So far, so good.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I dunno. There must be a zillion different varieties now since it was open-source....................They can’t hack them all!.................
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:53:13 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: Yo-Yo
“Go really old school: Gopher”
Gopher and Archie.
When Mosaic finally showed up, it was for wimps.
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:54:55 AM PDT
by
brownsfan
(Behold, the power of government cheese.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
05/30/2014 11:59:35 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: UScbass
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:00:03 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Soon there will be another American Civil War. Will make the first one seem like a Tea Party........)
To: UScbass
Try Palemoon. It is a Firefox knock off and is pretty darned good. All FF extensions and themes work with it.
Install it and then backup your profile from FF. Then import it to Palemoon. You're back in biz with no downtime.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:03:15 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says "shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
To: UScbass
Chrome seems to be the only one I’ve used without significant memory leaks. Google might be spying on me...but they probably are in a hundred other ways, anyway.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:03:22 PM PDT
by
Mr. Jeeves
([CTRL-GALT-DELETE])
To: UScbass
Pale Moon
http://www.palemoon.org/download-ng.shtml
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:05:40 PM PDT
by
Cheerio
(Barry Hussein Soetoro-0bama=The Complete Destruction of American Capitalism)
To: oldbrowser
Which is the least NSA friendly ? Probably the browser called Off By One.
But you wouldn't like it.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:07:25 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Only Liberals can look at an amendment that says "shall not be infringed" and see blank parchment.)
To: UScbass
To: UScbass
I don't know how many are familiar with Steve Gibson's website
GRC.com, but he has criticisms with the way websites with revoked security certificates are handled by some browsers. Apparently Firefox gets high marks in this regard. Chrome does horribly.
More info on revoked certificates:
Comparison of operating systems and Safari, Firefox, and Chrome (scroll to bottom of page if you just want the summary)
Chrome's failures (scroll down 3/4 of the way for summary "What exactly do we now know?")
Links in boxes at the bottom of these pages take you to even more info, such as how the system can be fixed.
I do wish he had tested more browsers.
To: UScbass
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:15:09 PM PDT
by
ShadowAce
(Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
To: UScbass
For Macs, iCab browser.
For Android, Boat browser.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:27:13 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: UScbass
Chrome for performance, IE for security.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:45:18 PM PDT
by
TexasGunLover
("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
To: UScbass
Pale Moon, I’ve been using it since FF fired the CEO, it is great, lighter, faster and more reliable.
Very easy to move bookmarks also and everything associated with FF, is as far as I can tell the same.
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posted on
05/30/2014 12:59:09 PM PDT
by
PoloSec
( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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