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Drop this in your hosts file and set up a refresh script to replace it periodically. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
The connection time outs will make your browsing experience feel slow as page take ages to load before they fail to do so.
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from the page it looks like privacy badger is similar to noscript, care to explain how it's better than noscript? noscript also has "forbid", "temporarily allow", and "allow" settings for blocking domains
Tried out Privacy Badger and had some bugs early on, refused to block certain domains and did not block things by default which I would expect. I prefer noscript.
> My goal is to make my browser as private as possible with minimal damage to my usual browsing experience. Not very long ago I wrote a guide documenting my specific configuration which has precisely this goal in mind [1]. The short version: disable third-party cookies, enable tracking protection (Firefox only), use uBlock Origin with some extra filters, use HTTPS everywhere, Enforce Click-to-Play and Disable Unneces…
I use basically this setup with one additional plugin: Noscript. But this has more to do with browser safety than privacy, in that I don't want some shady third party site getting to run whatever JS they want on my machine.
Drop this in your hosts file and set up a refresh script to replace it periodically. http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/hosts
I sincerely hope you don't do this. You're trusting that the people who run that site won't turn malicious in the future; and since your link uses http, you are also trusting that the same applies to their ISP, your ISP, or anyone in between!
egrep -v "^127.0.0.1|^#|^$" hosts.zero
should help ease your mind that the worst an attacker could do is make some site you want to go to apparently unavailable, but that would be under your control to fix too.
You're pretty much covered. uBlock Origin + Privacy Badger is awesome. You can add something like Tab Cookies or Self Destructing Cookies. You can also add something like uMatrix to the mix. If you really want to go far, add a "User-Agent Switcher" type extension. I wouldn't add more than this though, it starts to be overkill. Also do note: I used to use noscript and it works well, but going from 0 JS on a domain to…
from the page it looks like privacy badger is similar to noscript, care to explain how it's better than noscript? noscript also has "forbid", "temporarily allow", and "allow" settings for blocking domains
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 potentially harmful content by default and enabling it only if I need it for the site to function.
Privacy Badger is not designed for security so much as it is for protection against non-consensual tracking. It observes which third-parties store high-entropy cookies on your device. If it sees a third-party domain doing so across three different first-party websites, it automatically blocks requests for any content to that third-party from your browser.
So I'd say the big differences are Privacy Badger is set-and-forget, while NoScript isn't; Privacy Badger protects against different tracking (including pixel tags); NoScript protects against some first-party tracking (if you don't allow JS on a first-party domain) and security dangers.
Full disclosure: I work for EFF which makes Privacy Badger.
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I use basically this setup with one additional plugin: Noscript. But this has more to do with browser safety than privacy, in that I don't want some shady third party site getting to run whatever JS they want on my machine.
I made myself use NoScript for a few days. I was quite surprised at how performant the web suddenly was, but quite discouraged at how often I had to unbreak websites. Because of that I don't run it anymore, but understand why people do.
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Tried out Privacy Badger and had some bugs early on, refused to block certain domains and did not block things by default which I would expect. I prefer noscript.
I'm not clear that it blocks anything by default.
Also, Privacy Badger recently transitioned from beta to 1.0, so if you last tried it more than a month or so ago, I recommend giving it another shot. And if you find bugs, please report them!
Full disclosure: I work at EFF, which makes Privacy Badger.
Be very careful with that. If you're one the few who have the features disabled on a compatible browser, you make your configuration more unique and it becomes easy to identify you.
I'd would also advice not to spoof the User-Agent since the browser can be detected thanks to other parameters and if those ones contradict the User-Agent that's a very specific fingerprint.
I'd also advice not to enable the DNT (Do Not Track) header since it does nothing at all and is used by a minority, so it increases your entropy too.
The combination of your three extensions is very fine as far as I can tell. This is what I would advice in addition to them:
- Whitelist first-party cookie. Make them be deleted when you close the browser (in the privacy settings of Firefox) and whitelist the few sites you need them to be remembered. To whitelist a site on Firefox, click on the thing at the left of its url on the address bar (either a planet or a lock), click on 'More informations...', go to the Permissions tab, scroll to 'Set cookie', uncheck 'Use default' and click the 'Allow' radio button.
Many websites include arbitrary JavaScript that they grabbed in the documentation of some statistic tool or something like that. Such scripts, running directly in the site's pages, can then access first-party cookies.
- Use something else than Google. If you can't deprive yourself of Google results relevance, then use StartPage, it's a Google proxy. They make money by displaying non-targeted self-hosted ads. Unfortunately, I fear that Google might be able to identify you thanks to your queries themselves. Otherwise, just use DuckDuckGo.
- Use your history and bookmarks. Search engines are for discovering new content. To find something you have already seen or to reach a website you already visited, use your history. Ctrl+Shift+H. Or just type some word you remember in the address bar and pick the correct suggestion.
- Use search keywords (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-search-from-address...). They allow you to associate a keyword to about any search form anywhere and then search this form directly in the address bar. This also will reduce your search engine usage.
You should also know that when your browser performs a third-party request, the recipient of the request can know the page you're coming from thanks to the HTTP referer header. It can be disabled in about:config (http://www.technipages.com/firefox-enable-disable-referrer), but I'm not sure it would be a good idea, first because of what I've said about fingerprints in the beginning, second because it might break some websites.
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from the page it looks like privacy badger is similar to noscript, care to explain how it's better than noscript? noscript also has "forbid", "temporarily allow", and "allow" settings for blocking domains
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 potentially harmful content by default and enabling it only if I need it for the site to function. Privacy Badger is not designed for security so much as it is for protection against non-consensual tracking. It observes which third-parties…
What's the overlap between uBlock Origin and other plugins like Ghostery or Privacy Badger? Or even uMatrix?
Full disclosure: I work at EFF, which makes Privacy Badger.