4wd: I think I've figured out why I get the Collusion behavior I do. Instead of blocking referrer by default, I had it said to spoof to a google.com address. I normally hit google.dk, so while referrer links pointed to www.google.com/somethingsomething, I had never actually visited that address. I think that could explain why Collusion shows a bubble for each site, but pointing to nothing.

After I visited google.ae (to make sure it existed) and set the spoofed referrer to hxxp://google.ae/search?q=midget+nazi+porn , all visited sites after that link to (surprise surprise) google.ae. This does look quite festive, but it also means Collusion is extremely slow - and the graph isn't very useful for spotting actual referrer problems. I guess it
would be saner to block by default rather than spoofing, but... spoofing is funnier
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Or perhaps what I really want is an "advanced" mode that lets me do some regex matching

That'd be nice....I look forward to "f0dder's Referer Mangler"  

I think I already have some ideas for improvements, but I'm already spread pretty thin, and have never looked at extension development before. And I'd hate forking an extension, making some changes, and then not keeping it up to date. I also kinda think some of the ideas I have would be too large in scope for the RefControl author wanting to include it in his pretty lightweight plugin.

I'll mull a bit over this

EDIT: just reset Collusion and changed default RefControl action to block, visiting new sites pops up the individual bubbles again. I think I'll keep the setting at block - easier to see connections that way. And while Collusion slows to a crawl even with just the individual bubbles, adding edges (and the "node pull" that incurs) makes it even slower

... spoofing is funnier (see attachment in previous post)

I think you may spawn a whole new competition: "Who can create the most artistic web of Big Data?"



Still no idea why I get a completely blank graph but I do run a few anti-trackme addons, (don't forget to turn off 3rd party cookies also), and all cookies are session only, (all data is session only, I don't have any drive based cache).

Addons: AdBlock+, Better Privacy, Change Referer Button, Ghostery, HTTPS Everywhere, RefControl
Userscripts: Google Hit Hider by Domain, Google Search Better Privacy, Kill AddThis Mouseover, NoMiddleMan, RedirectionHelper, StraightGoogle

One day I'll have to go through them since I'm sure there's duplicated functionality there.

Sounds brilliant ... really secure browsing ... painfully slow and almost no functionality beyond plain text and pictures

Painful to set up, perhaps, but after that it should be faster than regular browsing...

RequestPolicy seems like a decent extra for the security minded - probably covers some of the stuff I want(ed) in RefControl. I'm sure their functionality could be combined and UX-improved, though . Anyway, going to take RequestPolicy for a spin, thanks for mentioning it, Ehtyar!

Interesting that you have a lot of 3rd party sites that show no connection to a visited site - are they due to cookies or referer?

EDIT: Forgot, are you still forging the referer 'cos that would explain it.