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Presentation about Internet Security held during Let's Warp Cologne User Meeting

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Dave Yeo:
Adblock Plus also whitelists ads for money, which by itself isn't so bad but they weren't upfront about it or the data collection. The consensus on the internet seems to be that ublock origin is the best ad blocker.
As for JavaScript, the idea with NoScript is that you only allow trusted scripts to run. Generally the ones that originate from the same site. It can be tricky and sometimes out of frustration you might temporarily allow most scripts to run except those that you have blacklisted. Most sites don't need Facebook or most Google scripts running to work right.

hakuchi:
Using NoScript is a bit encumbering at first, but by the time one gets those settings as they should be for the daily cruising ... until they make yet another layer of B$cripts that renders one site unusable until those settings are in place again. But mostly it's not that much bother for normal daily use, since we tend to go through only few sites anyway ..

But not exactly your average joe's thing to go by ... Privacy Badger would be my recommendation for non tech savvy person for daily browsing privacy.

Sandra Asja Eickel:

--- Quote from: ivan on February 23, 2020, 04:04:00 pm ---Hi Sandra,

It is nice to see someone in the industry actually telling others to be aware of computer security.  Thank you.

Although I am now retired I still get asked about problems when someone clicks on an email link or opens an attachment and things go wrong.  I have always used PMMAIL as my email client and if people can't send me text emails then I don't read them, it definitely cuts down on the spam.

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Nearly all OS/2 users use computers since decades, but quoting Roderick "many OS/2 users live in caves" ...

There are even new OS/2 users - at our meeting in Cologne (30.11.2019) someone popped up who had just rescued an old IBM ThinkPad from going into trash and we helped him to get OS/2 installed.

Nowadays, you can get computers in every super market somewhere between bread and butter - but even if you go to a computer retail store and order a PC together with a printer there, the best you can hope for is a system which is up to date, not filled with bloatware and has drivers for your printer installed ...

Real configuration or education? Forget about that - and in the rare cases, where it is offered, it's deemed too expensive by the buyer ...

For driving cars, you'll need a driving license. For computers, with whom you can cause accidents all over the world and that simultaneously, a corresponding driving license should be a requirement, too.


--- Quote from: ivan on February 23, 2020, 04:04:00 pm ---For myself I use Adblock Plus and  NoScript in firefox on OS/2, Linux Mint, ZorinOS and my Android tablets, they should also be on firefox on my phone but I use that so infrequently I'm not sure as the latest update might have changed things.

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Years ago, I found a comparision between Adblock and uBlock where uBlock was way faster and used significantly less memory - I switched and never looked back.

Greetings,
Sandra-Asja

Sandra Asja Eickel:

--- Quote from: Mathias on February 23, 2020, 05:42:47 pm ---Ivan, careful: AdblockPlus has a telemetry feature. Might be selling data to 3rd parties.. See Mantis ticket #0002397 @ ArcaNoae

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I'm logged in, but trying to go to ticked 2397 just gives an "Access Denied."

Sandra Asja Eickel:

--- Quote from: Joop on February 23, 2020, 05:45:47 pm ---Now your posts. Switch off your picture, take something NOT personal.

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--- Quote from: Joop on February 23, 2020, 05:51:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Sandra Asja Eickel on February 23, 2020, 12:40:21 am ---We need - just like SeaMonkey for Windows - the legacy version at https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock-for-f ... y/releases, which also gets updates from time to time, but these have to be loaded manually.
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I get a 404 on that address.

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That visible link was shortened by OS2.org and I used that to re-create the links here ... I included a working link at the top of the second part.

Greetings,
Sandra-Asja

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