Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by broolstoryco on Sunday January 19, 2014 @04:45AM
(#7083973)
honestly this sounds like a pain in the ass
Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by nikcub on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:00AM
(#7084100)
Start off with two profiles and go from there. I use virtual desktops (spaces on OS X) to manage it. Space 2 is gmail, space 3 is logged in sites, space 4 is development, etc.
Once you get used to it you instinctively switch without thinking about it
I also created an app for OS X that creates temporary throwaway browser sessions for any supported browser you have installed:
https://github.com/nikcub/tmpbrowser
Makes it easier than using command line options and creating users
Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by unbeli on Sunday January 19, 2014 @06:03AM
(#7084108)
What exactly are you trying to achieve with that, if I may ask?
Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by dictum on Sunday January 19, 2014 @07:50AM
(#7084278)
What exactly are companies trying to achieve with very precise, self-healing tracking methods?
Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by unbeli on Sunday January 19, 2014 @08:08AM
(#7084311)
Serve you more relevant ads? I don't really know. Which companies do you mean anyway? And what are these self-healing tracking methods?
Re:Adware vendors buy Chrome Extensions to send ad- and malw...
by nikcub on Sunday January 19, 2014 @11:43AM
(#7084901)
security and privacy - separate rings of trust for different websites. to me the idea of trusting every website on the internet with all of your cookies, extensions and plugins is crazy.
My second user account is logged into basic services like HN, reddit, amazon and has only adblock and disconnect installed.
A third user is not logged in anywhere and has adblock and a half-dozen other extensions installed including UA switcher. No plugins installed and cookies + cache cleared every day.
4th user has all the anonimity extensions installed and has privoxy + tor set as the proxy
I use Facebook in a completely different browser again, YouTube and video watching in yet another and development in chromium.
7 or 8 different cookie stores, and a throwaway temp email account associated with the 3rd and 4th user for signing up to services.
Start out by creating a separate user for browsing sites and eventually develop your own way to split up your web browsing profiles.
This can get a bit messy when you try and access from tablet or mobikle , but I'd rather not have a single large profile and a huge exploit surface and sacrifice browsing history and remembering passwords.