Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by joveian on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @03:12PM
(#15810401)
It depends on how much work you want to do... I change umatrix defaults to not allow any javascript, which breaks a lot of things (usually images :/). I also don't load anything from third party sites by default, which also breaks images and often css (many sites I usually just read the text with broken css). For this uMatrix is great and I wouldn't use uBlock Origin at all except that uMatrix has no option to not load fonts and I also have Firefox configured to just use DejaVu 16pt on all sites (which makes the web so much nicer, although also breaks a few things), but this doesn't prevent it from loading fonts for some reason (at least last I checked). I guess because some sites use icon fonts and maybe Firefox can't tell the difference until it gets the file.
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Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by dvddgld on Thursday November 30, 2017 @02:37AM
(#15814060)
So which part of this isn't possibly with only uBlock Origin?
Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by joveian on Thursday November 30, 2017 @01:45PM
(#15818329)
Blocking font loading. I'm not sure where fonts show up in uMatrix and there is at least not a specific fonts category, which is what I want.
Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by KozmoNau7 on Friday December 01, 2017 @03:10AM
(#15822637)
I block all fonts by default ("no-remote-fonts: * true" in "My Rules"), and selectively re-enable them on sites that I trust to use fonts responsibly.
This will block all externally loaded fonts, only system fonts will be used.
Re:Hundreds of web firms record 'every keystroke'
by joveian on Saturday December 02, 2017 @02:44PM
(#15833620)
I looked an only saw references to that in uBlock Origin, then realized I read the question wrong :/. As far as I know it is possible to do everything I want in uBlock Origin (I do the same with fonts), however the interface is less convenient than uMatrix, even with the advanced extra panel. It would work if uMatrix ever goes away, but I'd rather use uMatrix while I can. I tend to leave changes as temporary only when I can unless I am visiting a site frequently, so I end up having to redo many permissions and even a small increase in convenience is nice.