I've been using Abine's DoNotTrackMe for a while. Is this any different/better?
Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster
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#12I'd love to see an Android version of this.
Dev here. We do have a new Android app out (but focused on search rather than browsing privacy): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=me.disconnect....
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#13This is just going to be another arms race.
It's only an arm race if a lot of people uses it and it becomes a problem to business owners.
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#14This has been available for a while, curious why it's making HN now?
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#15From https://disconnect.me/disconnect : Common tracking sites – Facebook, Google, and Twitter – are shown separately to make them easy to block or unblock. Click any icon to block or unblock a site. ... Click the Facebook or Twitter icons to share these stats with your friends. Anyone else find that rather ironic?
Not really. The point isn't that those sites are evil, it's that tracking is evil.
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#16I have long since switched to Ghostery ever since Disconnect frequently broke YouTube videos and nothing was ever done to fix it. Does anyone know if this problem still persists?
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#17I have long since switched to Ghostery ever since Disconnect frequently broke YouTube videos and nothing was ever done to fix it. Does anyone know if this problem still persists?
hmm, been using Disconnect for a while in FF and Chrome, haven't noticed any issues with YouTube videos.
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#18I often find that Disconnect can be overly aggressive in the parts of a page that it blocks. When something is amiss when using a webpage whitelisting the site in Disconnect usually fixes the problem.
This also happens with Ghostery and to a lesser extent, Adblock. I switched from Ghostery to Disconnect and have found Disconnect to be a little better at not breaking some sites. The worst sites I've ran into while using Ghostery/Disconnect are the ones that have a Google Analytics action tracking code in the middle of their Javascript methods (since the addons block GA) so the entire site/app fails to work. Develop…
Wait developers should test extensions that make arbitrary changes to their javascript? That doesn't seem reasonable.
Re: Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster
#19It's the dots that you leave around the internet that is the biggest problem in personal privacy.
Re: Disconnect: open source extension makes the web more private, secure, faster
#20You can achive a lot of this without using any browser extensions by simply using a hosts file such as the one at http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm (that one is Windows-oriented but it works fine in linux also).
Or you could run your own dns but that's a bit more complicated to set up.