Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#1

Post by amq » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:23 PM UTC

Stop Firefox leaking data about you
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Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#2

Post by zbraniecki » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

It would be awesome to turn it into an extension that makes it a single toggle.

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#3

Post by salibhai » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:51 PM UTC

Seems like a bad idea turning off phishing notifications and browser warnings

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.safebrowsing.enabled Firefox 2.0 incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#4

Post by gruez » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:51 PM UTC

How exactly does reader.parse-on-load.enabled leak privacy? Isn't everything parsed locally?

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#5

Post by wodenokoto » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:52 PM UTC

While visiting google every 30 minutes or so is a way of leaking, you aren't leaking much more than ip and the fact that this up is in Firefox.

Isn't reader an offline functionality?

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#6

Post by Someone1234 » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

zbraniecki wrote: post #2

It would be awesome to turn it into an extension that makes it a single toggle.

I wouldn't use it since it:

- Disables the malware and phishing lists/warnings.

- Disables HTML5-video DRM (even if this has nothing to do with leaking data).

- Geo location already brings up a popup (and thus disabling it seems petty).

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#7

Post by toxican » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #6

zbraniecki wrote: post #2

It would be awesome to turn it into an extension that makes it a single toggle.

I wouldn't use it since it: - Disables the malware and phishing lists/warnings. - Disables HTML5-video DRM (even if this has nothing to do with leaking data). - Geo location already brings up a popup (and thus disabling it seems petty).

So we need a plugin where you can individually toggle each and every thing. (Just kidding)

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#8

Post by cremno » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 5:57 PM UTC

salibhai wrote: post #3

Seems like a bad idea turning off phishing notifications and browser warnings http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.safebrowsing.enabled Firefox 2.0 incorporates the Google Safe Browsing extension in its own Phishing Protection feature to detect and warn users of phishy web sites.

I think using a blocker extension like uBlock Origin restores (at least partially) this functionality without involving Google.

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#9

Post by tux » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

Don't forget about this;

"media.peerconnection.enabled = false" WebRTC leaks IP when you use TOR/VPN, test it with ipleak.net

"beacon.enabled = false" Blocks https://w3c.github.io/beacon/ analytics.

Also recommend using plugins; uBlock, NoScript if you use VPN.

Re: Stop Firefox leaking data about you

#10

Post by pmontra » Thu, Jun 25, 2015, 6:02 PM UTC

Someone1234 wrote: post #6

zbraniecki wrote: post #2

It would be awesome to turn it into an extension that makes it a single toggle.

I wouldn't use it since it: - Disables the malware and phishing lists/warnings. - Disables HTML5-video DRM (even if this has nothing to do with leaking data). - Geo location already brings up a popup (and thus disabling it seems petty).

I never saw a warning for malware and phishing in the browser. I do receive phishing emails obviously, but they are easy to spot. I read mail with Thunderbird and sometimes I check the source just to see which strange URLs they're using this time :-) If you read mail in the browser maybe disabling those checks is not wise. Agreed.

Disabling HTML5 video DRM could be annoying and geolocation is solved by the popup, as you say.