Another one to consider: NoScript.
Their desecription: The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank). NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a browser. NoScript's unique whitelist based pre-emptive script blocking approach prevents exploitation of security vulnerabilities (known and even not known yet!) with no loss of functionality... You can enable JavaScript, Java and plugin execution for sites you trust with a simple left-click on the NoScript status bar icon (look at the picture), or using the contextual menu, for easier operation in popup statusbar-less windows. https://noscript.net/ From: BVARC [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Crowell, N4HPG via BVARC Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2016 9:28 AM To: BRAZOS VALLEY AMATEUR RADIO CLUB; TDXS List Cc: Bill Crowell, N4HPG Subject: [BVARC] Off-Topic: Vastly Improving Web Browsing All, Recently, I was shopping on Amazon for some N bulkhead connectors. Going other places on the web such as Fox News, ads kept popping up trying to sell me N connectors! Everywhere I went were N connectors. And NO, it wasn’t God telling me that we should do away with PL-259s <grin>. Every day we are tracked and monitored by commercial entities on the web. They have a profile of each of us and they sell this information for profit. Besides this, all of the tracking systems slow down the browsing experience because they use bandwidth. We can drastically reduce tracking systems using 2 browser plugins: AdBlock. This blocks most adware. Pandora will complain as will other sites, but many sites with adware also have viruses for free download. You can turn it off if you need to on a site-by-site basis. Disconnect.Me - (www.disconnect.me) This blocks trackers. It’s donation ware and I’m going to donate a bit to them for the free version. As I write this, in my browser’s window I have Pandora playing. At this moment 41 ads have been blocked and 31 trackers. Sometimes I go to a site where I get a “canvas” warning. This is when the site is monitoring where your mouse moves on the screen! Like turning on the filter for CW, the noise is reduced! Pass it on. 73! Bill Crowell, N4HPG Pearland, TX [email protected] I prefer to live a life of galvanic isolation.
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