logical american <[email protected]> writes:
> Does anyone know where a controlled connect internet browser can be found?
Nope.
> I am now getting dozens and dozens of connections on my Mozilla Firefox
> browser and chasing some of them down seems to lead to my own IP company,
> but located transnationally. Once I saw 76 connections after I landed on a
> web page. (I realize that web pages do contain multiple embedded URLs but
> this is ridiculous). Even coming up on a search engine now seems to bring
> up unrelated sites.
>
> Can socket connections be limited from another running program which talks
> directly to the kernel?
Yes, but I don't know of anything on Linux that acts as a suitable front end;
over in OS-X land there are "Little Snitch" and a couple of similar tools.
However, you might be able to address at least some of your issues with some
combination (for Firefox; alternatives exist for other platforms) of AdBlock+,
together with the EasyPrivacy list, and/or Ghostery.
They both serve to stop a wide range of those extra services and/or monitoring
tools from working on the page. (You might also want FlashBlock to avoid that
adding more paths to fetching ... stuff. :)
Regards,
Daniel
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