Missing the point: it's about privacy [LWN.net]

Missing the point: it's about privacy

Posted Aug 10, 2009 18:23 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (guest, #45668)
In reply to: Missing the point: it's about privacy by sbergman27
Parent article: Ubuntu's multisearch surprise

I've been using epiphany off and on for a while now too.

One thing about it though, is that I feel that it's a net privacy loss, because I lack the customize-google and adblock plugins.

So when I use firefox, I can easily screw around with the google cookie, block analytics, etc. When I use Epiphany (while they're less slimy or Google-connected than MozillaCo is), I'm much more visible to Google (and friends) overall.

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Missing the point: it's about privacy

Posted Aug 10, 2009 19:00 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link] (2 responses)

apt-get install epiphany-extensions

The adblocker uses filterset.G and now has an editor for the blacklists and whitelists.

And just as a tidbit that I learned about not long ago, when you specify a bookmark in the bookmark bar, you can define it with something like:

Title: Google
Address: http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

and it will appear in the bookmark bar as a text entry field. Customize to taste.

Missing the point: it's about privacy

Posted Aug 10, 2009 19:09 UTC (Mon) by jordanb (guest, #45668) [Link] (1 responses)

Thanks. That adblock extension works great.

It's still missing the functionality of customize-google though. Specifically, the ability to anonymize the google cookie, and block analytics.

Missing the point: it's about privacy

Posted Aug 10, 2009 20:02 UTC (Mon) by sbergman27 (guest, #10767) [Link]

Well... there are two bits of functionality which might be helpful. Note that Epiphany now supports the Greasemonkey extension. And Epiphany extensions are supposed to be fairly straightforward to write (in Python).

I should note that I have never used Greasemonkey or written an Epiphany extension. But I felt I should mention the options anyway.