There is too much emphasis on trying to encourage sites to respect DNT - which in my opinion is a pointless losing battle - that it ends up putting privacy second. I support the EFF, and I trust that their intentions are good, I just don't think they thought this one through properly. 2) Uninstall Flash if you already have any version installed. There is talk about having it check with EFF instead, which is certainly better, but still not ideal in my opinion. Enabling on MacOS (Waterfox) Waterfox 1) Install Waterfox version 3.2.6. Personally, I would say if the site is not respecting DNT, don't contact it anymore unless I go there deliberately. Made specifically for 64-Bit systems, Waterfox has one thing. They did at least reduce the interval in the latest release - it used to be every single time you open Firefox and then every 24 hours thereafter, now it's 1-2 weeks - but it's still contacting the site and unnecessarily exposing information about you, including information that can be used for fingerprinting. Free download page for Project Waterfoxs is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. But then at intervals in the future it keeps going back to the site to ask whether its policy has changed. It checks the policy of the site to see if the site claims to respect DNT. I used Privacy Badger for a while (in addition to Adblock and Ghostery) but after I started looking deeper, I don't think it is very well thought out. And I certainly don't want the ad companies keeping track every time I click my way down the rabbit hole! Web sites deserve to get paid, so I hate blocking ads, but that doesn't mean I want my every search to start feeding into ad's on unrelated web sites. The last time I got the "Ars Subscribers Gets Lots of Benefits" ad, I reset Privacy Badger just in case it picked up some false positives, but the ads got blocked again within hours. To make Waterfox stand out a bit more, it’s compiled with optimizations so that it will run more efficiently and faster than just compiling Firefox as a 64-Bit program. This code is taken and compiled to run specifically for 64-Bit Windows computers. Ars uses ad networks that track me regardless of my DNT settings (*.,, specifically). Waterfox is a high performance browser based on the Mozilla Firefox source code. Combining blacklists with something like Privacy Badger sounds like a great idea, though.Īside: I always find stories like this somewhat ironic. Blacklists make for a good starting point, but the domains can be changed, and they need to be kept up-to-date. ![]() ![]() Click to expand.I've been using Privacy Badger for a while now, and it seems to work pretty well (after it's initial learning period, anyway).
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