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Chrome lets you limit access to a list of specified websites. Right click the extension icon, click manage extension, and find the option there.
Excellent, I hadn't noticed that one yet. Yeah, that's a good start.
Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list
If you have the latest chrome/firefox, doesn't that default to https all the time? Thus making "HTTPS Everywhere" redundant?
Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list
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Yes, this - absolutely. Every extension you install is another potential risk/attack vector. Consider the sources carefully and run the least number of extensions possible. Each one potentially has control of your browser, so choose accordingly.
Lately I ended up running much fewer extensions than I used to, and actually looking at their source first. I think the only closed-source extension I run is lastpass, and I'm evaluating open-source alternatives. How do people who cannot read code even cope, I don't know.
In the post: "Shut Up disables comments everywhere. When I trust a platform's audience enough to read the unfiltered outputs from their brains, I enable comments for just that site. Sometimes I turn it back off immediately" At the end of the post: A comments section with spam in it.
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That is quite a list. Some of the choices I don't agree with. For me the first thing I install though is Ublock Origin. Can't use the web without it.
uBlock is a godsend indeed. Which ones do you disagree with, and why?
Honestly, most of them. Grammarly in particular because of privacy concerns, but I avoid using any that are not both open source and high payoff.
I use Privacy Badger and NoScript. I may add Ublock Origin to cover the edge cases where I need to enable JS. Anything else is adding bloat, not cutting back on it.
NoScript in particular covers: UBlock Origin, Nano Defender, Hover+Unpaywall, and ShutUp
Most of the others, I already use something outside of a browser or don't need.
I am too wary of malware extensions to install that many. It is clearly trivial [0] for malware to get into the Chrome store, and Google is not doing enough to make me feel comfortable with it. Additionally, I know that even as non-malware extensions grow in popularity they are solicited by malware companies to integrate their software in an update. I experienced this first hand with the HoverZoom extension. [1] [0]…
I really wish browsers would change their security model for extensions :\ "all or nothing" is ridiculous as the only option - let me revoke access or restrict it to specific sites. I may not care if X has access to site Y, but giving it access to Z means giving it the keys to my life so hell no. I don't even want to use it on Z.
Thank you. I've been waiting for Firefox to add this feature for almost 2 years. For a privacy focused browser, this should be a must have, top priority.
On the off-chance that someone reads this and may find it useful, here are my most useful Firefox extensions: Firefox Container Tabs. Allows me to have multiple office or gmail logins, amazon AWS console sessions, etc etc. And one to keep Facebook walled off in its own little prison. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... SingleFile. Allows me to save a snapshot of a page when I bookmark it (…
I am too wary of malware extensions to install that many. It is clearly trivial [0] for malware to get into the Chrome store, and Google is not doing enough to make me feel comfortable with it. Additionally, I know that even as non-malware extensions grow in popularity they are solicited by malware companies to integrate their software in an update. I experienced this first hand with the HoverZoom extension. [1] [0]…
I disabled all extensions that I don't commonly use and am watching for now, but I have no idea how to actually tell which one did it (many of them were recently updated due to a Chrome change on August 6th or something).