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A whitelist approach is a good way to go in my opinion. This allows you to access the sites you have some trust in and block potentially dangerous functionality on all others. Once you've got the base list set up then you don't have to tweak it much.
There are a number of firefox extensions that allow fine control over the various features of browsing which relate to privacy and security.
The examples listed are some that allow whitelisting, there are plenty of other enhancements to security. I'd suggest having a quick look through them and picking the ones that work for you:
Alex Zelter wrote: | All the recent discussion about Phorm made me revisit the basic aspects | of browsing privacy in general. Up until now, I have been through | various stages of accepting or rejecting cookies and running or not | running http requests through proxy servers (such as privoxy) on my | various browsers. I have never bothered to anonymize my IP number. | Of course there is a trade-off between privacy and actually being able | to use the internet. For example, if I disable cookies in my browser, I | can no longer use gmail or do my internet banking, or many other things. | However, I can symlink my cookies.txt file to /dev/null and these things | work fine. | I'd be interested to hear how much edlugers protect their browsing | information, and the convenience tradeoffs that have to be made in order | to do so. | Reading something like http://www.junkbusters.com/cookies.html suggests | blocking everything. I don't block cookies, java, javascript, VBS and | ActiveX as that site recommends, because I think it's sad not to be able | to use most websites (which is the result) and to reduce many web pages | back to how they might have looked several years ago. On the other hand | - I don't like the idea of much of my browsing habits being sold to | third parties... | Are there more moderate solutions that provide fair protection of ones | privacy without interfering very radically with ones browsing experience? |
- -- With Regards.. Barrie Dempster (zeedo) - Fortiter et Strenue
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