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mikey
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 Posted: Sat Sep 25, 2004 8:33 am Post subject: What do you use... |
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...for content filtering?
No, this isn't one of those stupid polls. I'm just curious as to what folks are using to protect their privacy other than the standard things like FWs and the reactive non-productive bot killing apps. I made this response @ NI today and it got me to thinking about what others may be using or more importantly, whether folks even know that there are means to control what gets in and out. http://forums.net-integration.net/index.php?showtopic=22672
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Another popup control testing site; http://www.popup-killer-review.com/test.htm
EDIT: Note that almost all review sites like the ones posted by me and others in this thread are affiliate sites whos reviews may be tainted by the fact that they want to sell something.
I personally use a combo of Proxomitron and AdShield. I see no popups or any other content I don't want to. I've been testing privacy software for many years and have found this combo to produce the most powerfull content filtering sys on the planet. AdShield allows me to simply 'click away' any content I don't ever want to see again...very handy for sites frequented that have heavy FX all over the pages(especially nice for DUN users). Because of Prox, I see NO third party images which means I see very few ads. In addition to the filtering capacities offered precfged, you can create your own filters and even munge ALL info generally collected by all servers. I broadcast ONLY what I want them to know and nothing more.
The online browser test sites all return NOTHING;
http://www.cyscape.com/showbrow.asp?
http://bcheck.scanit.be/bcheck/
http://gemal.dk/browserspy/
http://browsercheck.qualys.com/info.php
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EDIT: BTW I haven't found a single highjacking site yet that can get past my filters. |
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mikey
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Hey Dave, while a few of the tools you mention do have a very limited content filtering ability, most of what you mentioned has little to no web content filtering.
SG & SB - very limited
SSD & AA - very limited(IMO not even worth enabling)
EDIT: Please don't confuse SSD's Teatimer for SSD's web content filters. Note my comments about the SSD BHO in the lower half of this page; http://www.voiceofthepublic.com/SSD/SI/teatimer.swf.html
IE SPYADS - very limited
a2 norton ewido ss & cc - none to speak of
Hosts file - very limited
None of the browsers that incorporate popup blocking pass all tests and have very limited or no capabilities toward content filtering either.
BTW Did you try the browser tests to see what info you give out with every single request made? |
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Some powerful tools there Mikey 
Yep, I did run the browser scans.
Opera
Hosts file
Spywareblaster
Thunderbird
Mailwasher
Half a brain
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