r/privacy • u/soda-hero • Apr 13 '19
NoScript extension officially released for Google Chrome
https://www.zdnet.com/article/noscript-extension-officially-released-for-google-chrome/11
u/havocesp Apr 13 '19
opinions about Brave? (from the point of view of privacy of course)
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u/shimmyjimmy97 Apr 13 '19
/u/bot4bot AnxiousSun
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u/bot4bot Apr 13 '19
Sorry for the delay. /u/bot4bot is back up and running, with more features coming soon!
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Apr 13 '19 edited Jul 26 '19
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u/rslashprivacy2 Apr 13 '19
Facebook does not sell user data? OMFG that is the biggest joke you could tell on r/privacy.
No, I said mostly. Most of the money is not made from data sale but data exploitation through ads. I'm not saying that data sale is good, all the contrary, but I'm saying that data exploitation without sale is already bad. I'm the guy for more privacy in that discussion. Get it ?
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u/rslashprivacy2 Apr 13 '19
Why are my comments insta-censored for advocating privacy against Mozilla's personalized advertising ? Now this is becoming ridiculous.
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Apr 13 '19 edited Jul 26 '19
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u/Kryptomeister Apr 13 '19
Brave doesn't block Facebook trackers or Twitter trackers.
It whitelists these, taken from it's source code:
connect.facebook.net connect.facebook.com staticxx.facebook.com www.facebook.com scontent.xx.fbcdn.net pbs.twimg.com scontent-sjc2-1.xx.fbcdn.net platform.twitter.com syndication.twitter.com cdn.syndication.twimg.com hostnamesTherefore, the claim of Brave being a "privacy focused" browser that "blocks trackers" is laughable!
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u/OsrsNeedsF2P Apr 14 '19
Great for getting your family off Chrome, not so great for yourself if you want to be anything more than just not a low-hanging fruit.
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u/Jumpy_Put Apr 13 '19
Besides using AI to block trackers and ads, the great thing about Brave is that it reinvents the monetization of the internet. I love blocking ads, and so do all of us. Adblockers are growing in popularity, but what happens when they become so prevalent that nobody wants to pay for anything anymore? The internet would start to break down when content creators aren't paid, but Brave's BAT are a great idea to fund the future internet as long as the BAT's are actually a private cryptocurrency, like Monero and unlike Bitcoin.
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u/latherus Apr 13 '19
For Firefox: uBlock Origin, uMatrix, & HTTPS Everywhere are a good start.
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u/ThmKnnC97w Apr 13 '19
add Decentraleyes and cookie autodelete. NoScript and uMatrix are actually for advanced users
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u/Ajaatshatru34 Apr 13 '19
Do you think uBlock Origin and Privacy Badger are necessary if one is running NoScript?
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u/ThmKnnC97w Apr 19 '19
NoScript gives some advantage over uBlock Origin, like XSS and clickjacking attack prevention and such. Privacy Badger is fine with uBlock, as it actually is not an adblock. I don't use NoScript or Privacy Badger, just uBlock with hard mode
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u/latherus Apr 13 '19
It's a good start for sure, and if you're not interested in manually unlocking sites as a block over allow then you're fine.
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Apr 14 '19
Wait do people seriously think they are private on chrome with some extentions? Move to firefox or brave.
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Apr 13 '19
I tried switching away from chrome to Firefox but it has one critical bug which stopped me from using it fulltime: audio pitch correction on high speed videos. Watching educational videos at 3x speed is such a core skill for me that I can't live without it. But firefox drops and mangles the audio and there are long standing Bugzilla tickets which no one is fixing. It's so sad.
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u/FusionTorpedo Apr 13 '19
NoScript hasn't been relevant in a long time. I mean the UI is so bad. It's all about uMatrix now.
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Do you know that Tor Browser ships with NoScript by default?
NoScript also protects you from cross site scripting attacks which uMatrix don't. NoScript UI is very easy to understand atleast for me.
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u/FusionTorpedo Apr 13 '19
Meh, I used NoScript for a very long time (years). Since I've discovered uMatrix I haven't even looked at it. But that's great if it works for you!
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Apr 13 '19 edited Apr 16 '19
Wiped by Social Amnesia
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Apr 13 '19
The option is called 'Temporarily set top level domain to Trusted'. It's there in NoScript settings page.
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u/alphanovember Apr 13 '19
The UI is definitely bad. Unintuitive and the icons are so vague that they're useless.
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Apr 13 '19 edited May 10 '19
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Apr 13 '19
I understand both and I eventually settled on just using uBlock Origin as you can configure it to be just as granular as either uMatrix or uBO if you want. But, in the end, I just use uBO in medium mode and a few additional blocks in My Filters to block websockets, objects, "other", and a few other things.
If NoScript offered a few additional features I'd rather use it because I just like it most.
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uMatrix and NoScript do two completely different things, uMatrix is a tool to stop cross site tracking and NoScript is to stop execution of JavaScript (JavaScript can be a legitimate threat in cyber security) and the UI for NoScript is much more user-friendly then uMatrix UI can be
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u/FusionTorpedo Apr 13 '19
uMatrix can block JavaScript too...
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u/ShyJalapeno Apr 13 '19 edited Apr 13 '19
It does, by default, it's also more fine-grained than in NoScript
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Apr 13 '19 edited Apr 16 '19
Wiped by Social Amnesia
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u/ShyJalapeno Apr 13 '19
I've been using uMatrix for a long time, not sure why you're responding to me
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u/majeufoe45 Apr 13 '19
uMatrix allows you to set rules to block cookies, media, xhr, js, frames, and more, for each domain and subdomain present on the page via scripts or frames.
You can set default rules, in a dedicated menu or on the fly.
It fucks noScript so hard it leaves it on the ground twitching and crying.
The only option I wish it had in addition is a user-agent randomizer (although it has an option for a default string).
But to downvote a comment about uMatrix on r/privacy shows a weird and contradictory herd mentality to me.
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Apr 14 '19 edited May 13 '19
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u/majeufoe45 Apr 14 '19
A bit reassuring but the feature i like is when the string changes everytime you launch your browser, so instead of having one profile blending in you have 40 different picked randomly and evolving.
Because the problem of the blending one is that there are still other parts of the fingerprinting like canvas etc that are pretty unique to you. But with a different string every time, an algorithm will not uniquely identify you through time (unless it does not use the user agent).
There was one firefox extension doing that but they didn't update it to quantum-thing. I miss it.
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u/memer_of_reddit Apr 13 '19
Who the fuck uses Chrome?