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Privacy stuff
Unlike HTTP Switchboard, µBlock can't foil cookie headers. I strongly suggest privacy-minded users to...
- Enable "Block third-party cookies and site data" in "Content settings" / "Cookies".
- It works very well: see "Outbound cookies" in this benchmark results.
- Enable "Click to play" in "Content settings" / "Plug-ins".
I personally use these command line switches (Chromium on Linux):
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--disable-component-extensions-with-background-pages- "Disable default component extensions with background pages" (ref)
- I believe this prevent Hangout Services to be launched by the browser as a background process. I wasn't too happy to find out there was such a process launched even though I do not use Google's Hangout.
- With other Chromium-based browsers, maybe more stuff would be disabled, you decide whether this is good or bad.
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--disable-background-networking- "Disable several subsystems which run network requests in the background" (ref)
- [add more switch of interests whenever new ones are found]
In case you were not aware, using EasyPrivacy doesn't protect completely against Google Analytics. So if you were using Adblock Plus with EasyPrivacy (as recommended by the EFF), you might have thought you were protected against Google Analytics. You are not.
If you are using µBlock, no worry, it protects against Google Analytics out of the box -- via "Peter Lowe's Ad server" list.
I don't know why this one is not blocked by Fanboy Annoyance, as the list already blocks many other twitter widget-related stuff. So if you use above list, you may want to add the following to your filters:
||platform.twitter.com/widgets.js$third-party
Each time you visit a site which pull cute little avatar images aside (typically) a commenter's name, there is a corresponding request to Gravatar's web site, and the HTTP referer header contains the site you are visiting. The tracking potential is too much for me, so I block all these requests:
||gravatar.com^$third-party
I don't know if, and how much this breaks things. But for now I am happy to not have my browsing habits disclosed to gravatar.com. I can live without these cute thumbnails.
But this applies to any domain which is ubiquitous enough, gravatar.com is just one example among so many. To deal with this easily, I find HTTP Switchboard to be the best tool, as to blacklist a ubiquitous domain is simply a matter of point and click.