OMG. It's a LOT of work to set up Firefox for privacy on WinXP!

Shadow replied:

I block addons.mozilla.org with my hosts file.

Privacy.

For panopticlick reasons, I never install plugins, but I do rarely install
extensions but only if they do something useful that the hosts file doesn't
do.

Here's an interesting way to whitelist sites without
installing a plugin - and it works just fine.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewto...p?f=8&t=287280

The forum article did not say what port number to use.
You can't use 0.

Insert for ip: 0.0.0.0 and for the port: 80

When a site is not in your list, you will be presented
with a "Proxy Server Refused Connection" dialog.

There is one thing that needs to be discussed.

What to do about content servers? That's images,
css and media. They are usually sent to the browser
via a CDN Server. (Content Delivery Network)

Some sites have CDN's, others don't.
The way you'll know if it has a CDN after you insert
a whitelisted site, then go to it and see if any images
are on the page. If not, then it has a CDN.

You can find the CDN's address by looking at the
webpage source. Right-Click on page and choose
"View Source". You'll be presented with html code.

Find the first image and glean the CDN's address.
Close out and go back and insert the address.

So, when you whitelist a site, you will also have to
whitelist its CDN Server, if it has one.

For example, in the "No Proxy For" box, it would
look like this:

bleepingcomputer.com, .bleepstatic.com, .yahoo.com, yimg.com

I tested this method of whitelisting, and it can be very rigid.

For instance, if I insert www.yahoo.com and wanted to
go to mail.yahoo.com, it won't let me. So, you have to
be specific.

yahoo.com will give access to its entire domain.

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:06:21 +0000 (UTC)
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IQN wrote:

First dots didn't do well in previous post.

See if this works, without the brackets of course:

(.bleepingcomputer.com, .bleepstatic.com, .yahoo.com, .yimg.com)

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:05:43 -0600, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

I'm trying to figure out and document how to set up Firefox for privacy on
WinXP due to data-mining attempts in web pages that I frequent.

It's complex as can be, so to make it simpler, I ask that we each post a
SINGLE actionable suggestion in each post (not thousands of suggestions in
one post), so that anyone following this in the future can take it one post
(suggestion) at a time.

Have a garage or rummage sale, and see your computer for $5 or $10.
Works everytime.

On Tue, 07 Feb 2017 02:05:39 -0600, wrote:

On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:05:43 -0600, Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

I'm trying to figure out and document how to set up Firefox for privacy on
WinXP due to data-mining attempts in web pages that I frequent.

It's complex as can be, so to make it simpler, I ask that we each post a
SINGLE actionable suggestion in each post (not thousands of suggestions in
one post), so that anyone following this in the future can take it one post
(suggestion) at a time.

Have a garage or rummage sale, and see your computer for $5 or $10.
Works everytime.

Will that turn off the cellphone cameras and microphones and
stop Google from storing and datamining what your friends write or say
about you on the "social media" and in emails ?
If so, that's quite a good idea. Otherwise, useless.
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