On 05/20/11 11:20, BeartoothHOS wrote: > On Tue, 17 May 2011 05:55:22 +0000, g wrote: > >> On 05/17/2011 05:44 AM, Jason Turning wrote: >>> You might take a look at Privoxy. I run that on my Fedora laptop, >>> Mandriva desktop and even my XP work computer. >> privoxy does not show in search at; >> >> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ >> >> >> you could send a link when you recommend something. > None is needed -- "yum install privoxy xinetd" has worked for all > releases of Fedora so far. (Privoxy required xinetd when I first got it; > I have no machine without it, on which I could test if that's still so.) > I have tried to use privoxy along with tor and along with the firefox add-on torbutton. It has not provided me with the type of security I was looking for: namely being constantly barraged by the javascripts from web sites that scan my cookies, catalogue what I searched for and what pages I accessed, ...etc, ...etc. I have even found out that the Uverse modem collects browsing history and sends it to AT&T. How so very generous of them to provide such un-requested "service". Using the noscript add-on helps with some websites, the contents of which are still readable/viewable in spite of blocking their scripts. But many web sites will simply not operate if you block their scripts: youtube, ebay, hotmail, not to mention facebook and other social web sites. IMHO, the worst hole in Linux's security, notwithstanding bad administration, is the browser through which all the java scripts from web sites hit your machine. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
