Re: dll version, possible from VB? Solved
- From: "mayayana" <mayaXXyana1a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:02:30 GMT
Just have to navigate through a lot of ads.
Ads? Oh, that's so 20th century. :)
With no script, no cookies, no animated GIFs,
and no flash - combined with using a HOSTS file -
I rarely see ads. A great deal of them are coming
from ads.doubleclick.com. Just having a HOSTS
file that blocks that alone will reduce ads dramatically
(and reduce the chance of Doubleclick looking
over one's shoulder via tracking beacon ads and
GIFs).
: (I'm using K-Meleon and generally never enable script. I've also
: found that E.E. works fine in Firefox.)
E.E.? What's that?
I just meant Experts Exchange.
I have two extensions installed, Web Developer
and NoScript. They both are great. I put a Google PR (page rank)
in it as well to get Page Ranks of pages I visit. I guess Google gets
to track me that way.
NoScript... http://www.noscript.net/whats
WebDeveloper... http://chrispederick.com/work/webdeveloper/
Google PR... http://www.tapouillo.com/firefox_extension/
I'll have to check those out. Though Google is starting
to give me the creeps with their privacy intrusions.
I won't install anything from them.
I'm curious, anyone messing with Firefox 2.0?I tried FF2 and was somewhat disappointed by
the changes:
* FF2 is getting bigger.
* The RSS stuff is just bloat to my mind. It's an
idea that's gone by, now that RSS feeds are full
of ads and images. Putting RSS headlines on
bookmarks just seems silly and confusing.
* The anti-phishing nonsense is very worrisome
to me. Both FF2 and IE7 now have phishing
filters that check sites against a blacklist, either
periodically updated or by checking *every
webpage visited*. The filters are unlikely to be
of much use, since a phishing URL can be easily
changed to accomodate blacklist changes. But they
introduce an entirely different problem:
The full-scale version of the filter reports every
site you visit. In Firefox it checks with Google.
( One is at least informed, in Firefox, of the privacy
issue when selecting the full option that checks each
page with Google's blacklist. In the case of
Microsoft, it's the typical confusing dialogue...
http://channel9.msdn.com/photos/optin_dialog.png
....asking "do you want to have Microsoft
protect you or would you rather burn in Hell?" )
Consider:
Mozilla.org has been getting increasingly cozy
with Google, they get paid for Google searches
done in Firefox, and they now have 2 or 3 Google
employees working with them. Microsoft, meanwhile,
is launching their "Live" trip, with search, shopping,
and who-knows what else.
A phishing filter that reports every site
visited, or even a filter that checks in periodically, is
a goldmine of information for targetted advertising.
It could possibly render the average user's Web
experience into almost TV, with corporate webpages
being re-written on the spot in order to target both ads
and content to the specific person visiting. The increased
adsense accuracy (and income) for Google could be
enormous. Likewise with Microsoft.
And yet, I haven't seen any major online commentators
even mention this radical new intrusion. They all seem
to just accept the phishing filter concept as a great idea.
* The options to remove 3rd-party ads and 3rd-party
cookies have been removed in FF2. The latter change
seems bizarre...how can anyone justify 3rd-party cookies?...
But in light of the phishing filter it makes more
sense. Google (unjustifiably) uses cookies with their
phishing filter blacklist service, which makes it a
3rd-party cookie.
By using the FF2 full-version filter and allowing 3rd-party
cookies, a typical FF2 user will be essentially logging
in to Google with their ID and browsing history every
time they go online.
All of the above shortcomings can still be bypassed,
as far as I know. And the user.js file or about:config
options still seem to work. But I decided to try K-Meleon
again after I saw where FF was going. I have a number
of people who I advise in one capacity or another, and
I want to be able to recommend something to them
that doesn't require geek credentails to set up. So I'm
getting used to K-Meleon. (Though of course FF 1.5 is
fine for the forseeable future.)
As it turns out, K-Meleon seems to be faster than
Firefox, but there are a couple of things I miss:
1) The menu option to view a page without CSS.
2) The easy ability to customize the GUI with a
userChrome.css file. (K-Meleon parses
userContent.css but not userChrome.css.)
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Another view that may be of interest was linked
yesterday, I think from Slashdot. The URL says it all:
http://listvine.com/2006/10/25/9-reasons-not-to-upgrade-to-firefox-20/
.
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