Secure Transactions

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Sensible to me is websites continue to work, with the minimal of
>> tracking being possible.  Sensible to others is no tracking, and some
>> sites will fail to work.  And to yet others, still, sites work
>> without errors or users having to make decisions about using the
>> sites.


jd1008:
> Well Tim,
> You run your browsing just to make it "work"!!!
> Not me!!!
> I at least do my due diligence to achieve some degree of thwarting
> unwanted things coming from ads, cookies, javascripts and popups.

I think I had previously mentioned having flashblock and noscript
installed...

I'm not particularly worried about using the internet, regarding
malcontent (pun intended), most of that is targeting the failings of
Windows.  I do try to cut down on the annoyances of flashy graphics
until I actually want to see them, continual page reloads, etc., and
cutting down on things that database you (whether to spam you or just
target you with ads).  One thing I haven't mentioned in this thread is
running my own DNS server which blackholes certain annoying domains, so
their content never appears, and traffic back to them can't happen.
But, like I over-simplified, I try to keep sites working, rather than
break them down in a completely paranoid manner.

> If a site does not work, then I simply dump it, and never visit it
> again.

Bit of a knee jerk reaction.  I do poke a bit to see if a failing site
simply was temporarily out of order, or that temporarily allowing some
third party content will get it working (e.g. playing a video clip in a
page).  But if it seems a pain to use, I tend to move on.

For years I just couldn't see why anybody would bother looking at a
twitter page.  Never mind the dumb things said on them, the pages always
looked so mangled, and never worked right.  I had forgotten that I'd
blackholed the domain that their pictures came from.

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tim at localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp

Linux 3.15.10-201.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 27 21:33:30 UTC 2014 i686

All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying
to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists.

George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not
a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments.