graiden August 16, 2012 14:09

Add redirect link cleaning and browser fingerprinting protection to Ghostery

Check it yourself here (privacy tests):
http://fingerprint.pet-portal.eu/
https://panopticlick.eff.org/
http://ip-check.info/?lang=en

Protections against this should be added to ghostery, actually the only addon protecting against this is:
https://addons.mozilla.org/es/firefox...

Also this feature should be added to ghostery:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire...
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    Alexei August 16, 2012 15:12
    Hi graiden,

    Thanks for the suggestions.

    Ghostery does indirectly protect against browser fingerprinting, in the case when one of the companies Ghostery tracks tries to apply fingerprinting using its third-party widgets. Since the widgets can be blocked by Ghostery, the fingerprinting will also be blocked.
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  • graiden August 16, 2012 15:43
    Also this feature of ScriptNo (for chrome)

    (Default: enabled; remove unwanted content from known ad / malware domains; domains gathered from MVPS HOSTS, hpHOSTS (ad / tracking servers), Peter Lowe's HOSTS Project, MalwareDomainList.com, and DNS-BH – Malware Domain Blocklist)
    http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
    http://hosts-file.net/
    http://pgl.yoyo.org/as/policy.php
    http://www.malwaredomainlist.com/
    http://mirror1.malwaredomains.com/fil...

    See also Privacy settings: http://andryou.com/wp-content/uploads...

    Reffer spoof, user agent spoof...

    Block Unwanted Content: (Default: enabled; remove unwanted content from known ad / malware domains; domains gathered from MVPS HOSTS, hpHOSTS (ad / tracking servers), Peter Lowe's HOSTS Project, MalwareDomainList.com, and DNS-BH – Malware Domain Blocklist)
    Block Unwanted Cookies: (Default: enabled; blocks cookies from known ad / malware domains; below mode applies to this as well)
    Unwanted Content Mode: (Default: Relaxed; Relaxed = whitelisted domains will not be blocked; Strict = domains in the unwanted domain list will be blocked even if whitelisted)
    Antisocial Mode: (Default: disabled; always remove social widgets/buttons, even if whitelisted)
    Remove Webbugs: (Default: enabled; remove "invisible" third-party elements)
    Block Click-Through Referrer: (Default: enabled; blocks referrer information when clicking on external links)
    User-Agent Spoof:
    (Default: -Off-; spoofs your user-agent (browser and OS))
    Referrer Spoof:
    (Default: -Off-; warning: if enabled, may "break" some sites (e.g. logging in))
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  • graiden August 24, 2012 09:51
    Also the feature of this addon will be nice on ghostery
    https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/fire...

    Maybe all this could be in an advanced config in ghostery optionsne.
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