And while I'm at it, is there a way to prevent a website from rewriting a url when I click on it? sites like Google and DuckDuckGo show the actual url in the href, but when you click it (or right click and copy it) it becomes something like http://example.com/something?url=encoded_real_url and I detest that.
Blocking the referrer in Firefox is easy, just go to about:config and search for the string 'network.http.sendRefererHeader' then modify it from the default 2 to a 0 (zero).
This breaks some sites.
None I use.
I've read it is a problem for last.fm users because of some social chat thing they use I forget the name of.
Anyway.
I do this too, kind of.
I use either refcontrol or smart referrer.
I let sites have referrer on their domain but no 3rd parties by default and can add an exception if I want.
You can test this at http://ip-check.info regardless if you're using Tor or not.
I haven't found the time to do it my self yet but will if someone doesn't beat me to porting Window Name Eraser to firefox from chrome.
window.name is great for the site your visiting to use on their site. They have absolutely no business using it crossdomain, period.
Not even if they own the other domain. There are legitimate ways to do that but they are too lazy, dumb, or opposed to using encryption.
I will allow a fucking cookie if I want to login or allow them to store or gather anything!
No supercookies, no flash cookies, no evercookies.
I use cookie monster, cookie culler, cookie self-destruct, and Cookie Controller that applies my regular cookie rules/disposition to DOM storage cookies as well.
Browsers, all of them, should behave and act the way they do after I make them go all green on ip-check.info.
In addition to that they have no fucking business knowing what the monitor resolution is.
They ONLY need the canvas/inner window of the browser to render their damn site right.
I will pull down videos and watch them offline without flash phoning home or to anyone else to give them anything to fingerprint my devices with.
They aren't entitled to this information and I'm against them having it.
If I were like Carrie or the Twilight Zone kid who sends people into the Corn field and does other "fun" stuff they would have very good reason to be worried. >=/
And while I'm at it, is there a way to prevent a website from rewriting a url when I click on it? sites like Google and DuckDuckGo show the actual url in the href, but when you click it (or right click and copy it) it becomes something like http://example.com/something?url=encoded_real_url and I detest that.