SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Jake Archibald writes in his blog about the bigger problem presented by importing third-party content into web pages. Even CSS is a problem as a CSS keylogger demo showed the other day.
A few days ago there was a lot of chatter about a 'keylogger' built in CSS.
Some folks called for browsers to 'fix' it. Some folks dug a bit deeper and saw that it only affected sites built in React-like frameworks, and pointed the finger at React. But the real problem is thinking that third party content is 'safe'.
While most are acutely aware, yet ignore, the danger presentd by third-party javascript and javascript in general, most forget about CSS. Jake reminds us and walks through quite a few exampled of how CSS can be misused by third-parties exporting it.
Source : Third party CSS is not safe
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday March 01 2018, @02:11AM (2 children)
Have you tried Vivaldi? I'm using it a lot (like now). It's chrome-based, and I think it's slightly faster, but I haven't done a 1-to-1 comparison. Most software, cleaners, plugins, etc., see it as chrome. I just like the UI and settings better.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Thursday March 01 2018, @07:39AM (1 child)
I'll give it a try this weekend.
Really I prefer Safari to Chrome. Hopefully I will prefer Vivaldi to Safari.
Safari doesn't have an API for Add-Ons.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Thursday March 01 2018, @03:07PM
You're so kind, thank you. There are too many browsers out there. I've been using Dolphin on Android (when I'm not near a bigger computer) and it's pretty cool. I've also been using Opera Mini on Android. Ever since a Chinese company bought Opera I'm cautious- nothing involving $, personal info, logins, etc., is done on Android.
I do use Safari on MacOS, but I've never tried it on PC.
I'm curious how you like Vivaldi. They update it fairly regularly. I'm not a fan of auto-updaters, and every time you update Vivaldi it turns on: (upper-left "V" button) --> Tools --> Settings --> Updates --> Notify About Updates, which just starts and runs update_notifier.exe.
Extensions I have installed (there are so many available), but not necessarily turned on, are:
Adblock Plus
AdGuard AdBlocker
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials (DuckDuckGo is the default web search for Vivaldi)
Fair AdBlocker
Fair AdBlocker App
Fair Ads
Script Blocker for Chrome
Script Defender
Extensions I have installed and usually turned on:
disable-HTML
HTML5 Video Autoplay Blocker
Disable HTML5 Autoplay
Privacy Badger
uBlock Adblock Plus
uBlock Origin
uBlock Origin Extra
Video Blocker by plowman
Awesome extension, on when I'm super-cautious, bit of a learning curve including that you teach it as you go:
uMatrix