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the_zeroth_law

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    Comment #17411732

    Yep. This looks like a bug in STARTTLS Everywhere, and we're working on it!

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    Comment #17402110

    One of the nice features of the policy list is that you can put your server on it in testing mode. In testing mode, any failure in TLS negotiation is logged and reported, but the m…

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    Comment #17402036

    Thanks for catching that! We definitely still have some bugs to work out.

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    Comment #17402004

    I'm an EFF technologist, and we're looking into this!

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    Comment #17401993

    We do mention both: see https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/06/technical-deep-dive-st... To sum up from that post, we think STARTTLS Everywhere is a stop-gap measure until DNSSEC is…

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    Comment #10137255

    One major difference is that Privacy Badger doesn't use a blacklist like the others and really isn't designed for the purpose of ad-blocking. It's designed to prevent non-consensua…

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    Comment #10137223

    That's correct; Privacy Badger doesn't block anything by default because it doesn't use a blacklist. Instead, it observes the behavior of third-party domains and blocks them based …

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    Comment #10137198

    They're both good at different things: NoScript blocks Javascript/Flash/etc. based either on a list you import, or on a case-by-case basis. I use it as a security measure, blocking…