Re: [dev] surf alternatives for Adblock Plus, Privacy Badger, Self-Destructing Cookies, BetterPrivacy

From: Ben Woolley <tautolog_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 13:45:30 -0800

Hi Greg,

Please review my work with surf on origin isolation to satisfy the
same-origin policy. It doesn't block ads, but it prevents tracking by
storing all cookies and cache per first-party origin website. The
latest patch also adds some noise to headers to interfere with browser
profiling.

It won't solve the problem of reducing ads, focusing on privacy. You
could probably use a hosts file or something to block most of the ads.

Original posting:
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1501/25070.html

Updated patch:
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1501/25194.html


On 1/26/15, Greg Reagle <greg.reagle_AT_umbc.edu> wrote:
> Hello. I am trying surf instead of Firefox (which I've used for very
> many years). So far so good. The difference in memory usage is
> amazing.
>
> There are a few Firefox extensions that I've come to rely on. What do
> you use or what do you suggest that I use to provide the functionality
> of the following Firefox extensions:
>
> Adblock Plus for blocking ads, see https://adblockplus.org/
>
> Privacy Badger for blocking trackers, see
> https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
>
> Self-Destructing Cookies for automatically deleting cookies, see
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/self-destructing-cookies/
>
> BetterPrivacy for blocking Flash cookies, see
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/
>
> Thanks!
>
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Received on Mon Jan 26 2015 - 22:45:30 CET