Rick Moen wrote:
Quoting Trent W. Buck (trentbuck@gmail.com):
As to cookies, I take a scorched earth approach of deleting anything that looks remotely like browser-created state every fifteen minutes. http://cyber.com.au/~twb/.bin/twb-privacy
Sure. And you'll probably want to give the same treatment to the far-worse Flash cookies (if you have the Adobe/Macromedia proprietary Flash plugin at all). Standard HTTP cookies have tiny capacity, while Flash cookies have immense capacity.[1]
Pfft, what kind of monster do you take me for? OTOH note the not-yet-released-but-everyone-apparently-supports-it HTML5 standard wherin sites can store entire SQL and key-value databases on the client side (that's ~/.local/share/webkit/databases in my script).
I also miss polipo's censorReferers = maybe option, which would only include the Referer if the TLD was the same.
Somehow, I'd missed hearing about Polipo until now. Thanks!
It is... a mixed blessing. I had strong opinions about it ignoring nsswitch's views on how to resolve hostnames, for example, though AIUI the GUI browsers do that too "because gethostbyname is too slow". It also tends to hang and leave you going "huh? why page no load? refresh no worky?... oh, I bet is polipo again, argh!" And because it goes out of its way to leverage HTTP/1.1iness (a LOT more than squid), some apps have a tendency to 417 at the drop of a hat unless you no_proxy them. In the end I stopped using it becuase it was more annoying than helpful, but YMMV. Certainly worth at least trying.