It sounds like the business model came to involve secondary use and sharing of the data they acquire. Do you remember hearing anything about that...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/nov/02/admiral-to-price-car-insurance-based-on-facebook-posts One of the biggest insurance companies...
No worries, mate. In fact, I feel pretty good about it. Someone momentarily overlooked the fact that I am like a broken record on the subject!...
Well thanks for posting the link and quote, but what I really meant was: Have any users (and/or prospective users) here done some assessment of...
How does TrafficLight work? Does it perform cloud queries and/or phone home other information? If so, what is sent?
IP traffic comes in on your ISP connection and is received by the WAN interface of the gateway/router. Then the router decides what to do with...
It would if the router is designed/configured to block the traffic in question. For example, the stateful firewall [and NAT] in most home routers...
I'm glad some are capable of taking a critical look at web/app APIs. Especially those which are hardware related and can negatively impact...
Normally you fix router issues in the router and fix computer issues in the computer*. So it helps to know what is being scanned and where the...
I take you clicked through and saw this, but it might be good to surface:
From the link above:
http://www.ghacks.net/2016/10/30/firefox-ublock-origin-webextension-released/ @gorhill: I noticed WebExtension capture exceptions being...
It sounds as though the source of the scans was on the Internet side and basically it was your modem/router that was scanned (rather than your...
I looked at CanvasBlocker 3.1 source. It appears that the Random Number Generator: Persistent|Non-persistent setting affects not only persistence...
It likely would, in at least some ways. Then again, there are multiple aspects to security and what qualifies as "secure" will differ....
Thinking out loud while looking over your shoulder... you say you are using DNSCrypt and don't see DNS traffic in the clear (good). OpenDNS...
@Anonfame1: I forgot to quote you on my previous I see. Not why I'm replying again though. First of all, I'm not happy with myself for having...
OK, just posted 1.7. If the canvas data smells legit (starts with "data:image/png;base64,") then the word Data is turned into a link. Which when...
Are you looking at Canvas1 or are you copying its Data (data:image/png;base64, ...) and viewing that? I think you need to look at the latter...
@Anonfame1: I edited my post moments before you just replied. Did you catch the edit? Edit: Asking because the last thing was actually above the...
Yeah. I wanted a test page that could draw attention to things of interest (which specific API is blocked, whether there is obvious randomization...
@gorhill: You may already be aware of this but just in case: Remove beforescriptexecute/afterscriptexecute...
Is that this? https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/issues/308. Looks frustrating for users and developer.
The Startpage proxy doesn't simply tunnel your traffic. It sits in the middle, altering page/links and stripping some things out. Or is supposed...
Thanks for sharing your results. Some login pages use fingerprinting for device detecton, and if the fingerprints do not match there are extra...
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