There are a number of anti-tracking add-ons but in particular Ghostery
is a good tool for revealing and turning off website trackers. For FF
and Chrome that I know of.
In conjunction with Adblock Plus makes good in-roads to protecting your
browsing.
Rob
On 28/03/15 18:46, Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Craig Sanders ([email protected]):
I gave up on flash / youtube / other videos in firefox/iceweasel
ages ago. mostly because i don't want to enable all the scripting
that video sites "require" on my main browser. recent versions of
iceweasel in experimental have great support for HTML5 videos but I
still don't want to watch videos in my primary browser.
instead, i installed Chromium, the open-source version of google chrome.
this has an updated flash player built-in (newer than the stand-alone
linux version which works with firefox). Watching youtube etc videos
is pretty much the only thing i use Chromium for, so i'm not too worried
about the tracking spyware.
I use the adblock and NotScripts plugins for chromium, so javascript
is disabled on sites by default unless I turn it on.
BTW, i use yet another browser (Midori) for facebook, which
(unfortunately) is the only way i can keep in touch with some
friends....and, again, I never use that browser for anything else. Of
course, I enable the adblock plugin for midori too.
The logic of this approach is compelling. Nothing like total process
separation among multiple browsers for preventing cross-site tracking.
i also use epiphany (ugh!)....
As penance? You must have been very bad. ;->
Every five or so years, I look around to see what Linux graphical Web
browsers exist, alongside Firefox[/Iceweasel] Chromium/Chrome, and
Konqueror. My latest survey is comically out of date, and can be seen
here: http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/?page=kicking#linuxbrowser
Of those, I see these are still around:
http://conkeror.org/
http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ (bloatware alert!)
http://www.dillo.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/brx/
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web (ex-Epiphany, now called 'Web' -
GNOME brain-damage alert!)
http://www.w3.org/Amaya/
http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/ (FSF religion alert!)
http://www.twotoasts.de/?/pages/midori_summary.html (but you have that one)
https://code.google.com/p/arora/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazehakase
http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
http://www.muhri.net/skipstone/
http://swiftweasel.tuxfamily.org/ (no releases for 5 years)
https://rekonq.kde.org/
http://www.opera.com/computer (proprietary)
http://getswiftfox.com (proprietary)
...just in case you wanted a dozen or more additional Linux graphical
browsers to play with.
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