Which browser plugins are essential for privacy?

Posted by tessellated on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @10:51PM
from the self-post dept.

Considering a well maintained '/etc/hosts' file, what does AdBlock+, Ghostery, etc... do, that a well maintained 'hosts' file does not?

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Re:Which browser plugins are essential for privacy? by sp332 on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:23PM (#3597379)

It's a bit extreme, but I'm loving RequestPolicy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/requestpolicy... It lets you see every domain that text, graphics, code etc have been loaded from on the current page. The default is to block everything, but it's easy (two clicks) to allow or whitelist a domain.

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Re:Which browser plugins are essential for privacy? by jezclaremurugan on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:23PM (#3597376)

I think its quite hard for individuals to keep updating their /etc/hosts file regularly. But, if we could all share it in github, this would be a great idea!

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Re:Which browser plugins are essential for privacy? by tessellated on Thursday February 16, 2012 @12:09AM (#3597464)

I found at least 2 accounts maintaining 'hosts' files on github, how would we go about centralizing these effords?

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Re:Which browser plugins are essential for privacy? by pewfly on Wednesday February 15, 2012 @11:41PM (#3597415)

http://someonewhocares.org/hosts/

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