Re: Browser Privacy

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Allegedly, on or about 23 August 2016, Drew Samson sent:
> Perhaps this will help someone in their quest for greater online
> privacy and enhance their computer security. 

If *only* safer browsing didn't have to venture into tinfoil hat
territory...  But the moment you start shutting off the hazardous parts
of browsing, which are numerous, most websites fail to work, or fail to
work well.  Yes, I'll go as far as saying *most* websites.

Just about every site I look at, doesn't work (at all, or usefully)
without scripting.  And usually it's not just scripting from the site,
but it's scripting from half a dozen or more different services, some of
which will chainload more crap from yet another set of services.  Even
if security wasn't the concern for denying scripts, it becomes almost
necessary to deny scripts so that my PC doesn't bog down from all the
scripting from one page, never mind trying to open multiple tabs.

Can't read the on-line tv guide, or read the news.  It's just ordinary
stuff, not websites about doing dodgy things.  Even simple things are
ruined by this recursive-scripting crap that designers go through.  Go
to a musician's website, he offers some free samples to listen to, but
they're not on his site, where you could simply download/listen to a
MP3/Ogg/whatever, it's a link to soundcloud, dropbox, or any one of a
number of bulk file handling sites that require you to allow a plethora
of scripts to run.

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[tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp
Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64

Boilerplate:  All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is
no point trying to privately email me, I only get to see the messages
posted to the mailing list.

I reserve the right to be as hypocritical as the next person.


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