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[[Image:35star.png]][[Image:00star.png]] Enables users to easily detect and control tags, web bugs, pixels, and beacons that have the potential to collect data on their browsing habits. Ghostery blocks HTTP requests according to their source address in two ways: Cookie Blocking and Cookie Protection. Ghostery for Firefox uses a separate engine from its "control" engine to scan the DOM of the webpages users visit and report the contents in a purple overlay inside the page DOM. Being tracking online by companies like Google and Facebook is a serious problem today. You have a right to privacy and your personal activity is being exploited in ways many can't fully appreciate. Security and privacy extensions along with other precautions such as the use of [[Private Search Engines]] will help you to be more anonymous, preserving your privacy as much as possible without completely unplugging yourself from the Internet. issue: Ghostery incompatible with Verizon Wireless web site www.verizonwireless.com online bill pay. Certain javascript buttons like the Pay Now or Next are disabled by Ghostery, making it impossible to pay a phone bill online. resolution: add verizonwireless.com to the Ghostery whitelist. Still, the inconvenience and troubleshooting time results in loss of 1/2 star rating for Ghostery.* Usefulness: Recommended (for security)THEY SOLD OUT. LATEST RELEASE IS SPYWARE.* Category: Security * Side Effects: causes problems with some online bill pay services* Compatibility: ''(testing)''* Side Effects: unknown * Side Effects: unknown ''Palemoon Support: NO (Jetpack/SDK)''=== [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/?src=userprofile NoScript] ====== [[NoScript]] ===[[Image:50star.png]] In light of recent browser hijack and malware such as the [[Internet Security 2012 Virus]] it is highly recommended that users install and learn to use this extension. It allows JavaScript, Java and other executable content to run only from trusted domains of your choice, e.g. your home-banking web site, guarding your "trust boundaries" against cross-site scripting attacks (XSS), cross-zone DNS rebinding / CSRF attacks (router hacking), and Clickjacking attempts, thanks to its unique ClearClick technology. It also implements the DoNotTrack tracking opt-out proposal by default. ''note: [http://forums.informaction.com/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=7971 incompatibility with online banking]: resolve. Issue: even with "allow scripts globally" and allowed domains many major online banking sites will not function with this extension active. <del>NoScript had to be completely disabled for online banking</del>. Resolution: Options -> Advanced - > uncheck "Turn cross-site POST requests into data-less GET requests" - do online banking - then promptly enable the feature again. This feature is a valuable security intervention and the problem it causes is actually a defect in the bank's web site that the bank needs to and hopefully will correct presently.'' NoScript deserves 5 stars and we urge people to try out. However, it may be overwhelming for some novice users or people that "just don't get it" and cause them problems on their ordinary use of common web sites. However, not everyone is willing to wear a life preserver when they go boating in deep water, and as much is the same for online safety and security. Upgraded NoScript to 5 star status. This is the most valuable Firefox Extension ever created. I recommend it to everyone.* Usefulness: Recommended (for security){{:NoScript Review}}* Category: Security* Side Effects: may conflict with other plugins. * Conflicts: impacts but does not nullify QuickJava 1.7.5. Although it works ok with Flashblock 1.5.15.1., it is no longer necessary to use Flashblock when running NoScript (redundancy). Other similar plugins also redundancy; possibly QuickJava.* VLT: 2.2.3configuration tip: Goto Firefox about:config and change boolean parameter [http://www.ghacks.net/2009/07/16/block-noscript-from-opening-homepage-after-update/ noscript.firstRunRedirection] to disable annoying NoScript homepage after update (because updates are very frequent). Set noscript.firstRunRedirection to False.''Palemoon Support: YES - verified''