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Firefox Extensions: Your favorite or most useful
IainB:
I have just installed CanvasBlocker :: Add-ons for Firefox as it looks potentially useful (and I have seen nothing else that does this), per: How to block Canvas Fingerprinting in Firefox browser, where it says:
Archaic methods of tracking users via cache and cookies mechanisms are always there. But of late, there has been a new invasive method for tracking users across the Internet – Canvas fingerprinting. The mechanism takes advantage of the Canvas API in modern browsers, which interacts with a computer’s graphics chip and allows users to play games and interact with webpages. Here, invisible images are delivered to the browser with malicious intentions and then sent back to the server with a “fingerprint” of the computer and location.
If you are a Firefox user, spare few minutes and read this post, chances of you falling prey to this web’s trickiest privacy threat could be reduced if not removed to a large extent. ... (read more at the link)
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ewemoa:
Nice find...and nasty tracking.
Thanks for sharing!
Some related links of interest:
Canvas Fingerprinting Wikipedia Page
The Web never forgets Paper Home Page
Sheirstles:
I have released a new version of OperaView (0.7) which works with Firefox 3.5.x.
Download it from http://operaview.mozdev.org/ or https://addons.mozilla.or...en-US/firefox/addon/1190/
Curt:
I have released a new version of OperaView (0.7) which works with Firefox 3.5.x-Sheirstles (November 30, 2014, 08:10 AM)
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-this is one of those situations that makes me spin around myself, saying erhh, but... how is... ehh, but ... what is... ehh
@Sheirstles.
OperaView version 0.7 by Bartosz Piec has been on the market for approx. 5 years, all of the time as version 0.7. The text from year 2009 on both MozDev and Mozilla is saying what you even are repeating: "version 0.7 now works with Firefox 3.5". And yet, it was just updated - but is still listed as the same old version 0.7, dated 2009. How is that possible? __?__ Is it merely a necessary trick, maybe because of some annoying Mozilla rule, to update your fine application, as easy as possible?, or how come it still is version 0.7 from 2009?? -
And why the heck do you list Firefox version 3.5, but not any new version?
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The proper Mozilla link is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/operaview/
dr_andus:
It doesn't look like Tile Tabs has been mentioned in this thread yet (apologies if it's common knowledge). I've just discovered it today and like it a lot. Their customisation options are impressive. I need it for splitting a WorkFlowy page vertically in FF.
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