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Privacy Possum by cowlicks

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  • by Firefox user 13764907, 7 years ago
    I hope it will work even better with times!
  • by Detergent, 7 years ago
    Seems promising. However, for now I only can see "headers blocked from X sources", but not which sources. It might be a nice addition if we also could easily see these. On a side note, having to make a seperate Github account just to report a broken website is a bit too much.
  • by Firefox user 13336181, 7 years ago
    Could you add a privacy policy to this add-on listing?

    More thorough than Privacy Badger so far! Thanks!

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    The privacy policy is now live here https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/privacy/

    The full text is "Privacy Possum does not collect or send data to any server."

    Thanks!
  • by Firefox user 14038268, 7 years ago
    It blocks trackers that even privacy badger doesn't detect.

    I would like to thank the developers of this addon for fixing the problems that eff was unwilling to try to fix. I think eff should ditch privacy badger in favor of helping Privacy Possum. :)
  • by Firefox user 14034839, 7 years ago
    I like it. Will use alltime. I am a fanatic on tracking and privacy. Thank you for this addon GREAT.
  • by Firefox user 11675778, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 13909246, 7 years ago
    Breaks too many sites, DuckDuckGo, Qwant and several others, even when those are whitelisted. The extension most likely includes browser-wide settings which remain active even if it is disabled for a given site.

    The extension is praiseworthy and was adapted, as I understood it, from the Chrome extension, and maybe is that where sits the culprit.

    One star because the extension is obviously not operational now, but five stars for the extension's very concern: privacy, anti-fingerprinting all in the scope of tracking, which is getting worse day by day.

    So be kept up the improvable work.

    EDIT with latest version 2018.5.7 : a TRUE progress!
    DuckDuckGo, Qwant no longer break. The developer is reactive and obviously corrects, improves the extension according to feedback (and his GitHub page is the place to dialog).

    Tough to deliver a rating when the racer is still a child. I believe more in sharing experiences than in ratings which anyway need to be explained. Because of my edit I'll keep 5 stars for the extension's purpose and switch from one to three stars, because I haven't tested yet enough sites in their relationship with the extension. Maybe 5/5 tomorrow or in the coming weeks?!

    Anyway, I'm keeping now 'Privacy Possum' as it seems "operational", at least enough to bring more benefits than problems.

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi, thank you for your report! I've submitted a fix for the DDG and Qwant breakages. Can you please let me know what other sites are broken? I'd like to fix them.

    The bug on DDG & Qwant were caused by the same issue (fixed here https://github.com/cowlicks/privacypossum/commit/15db4394af5a79e05b41b750fc23db8aa5b1ac3d )

    You are correct about this being a browser wide thing, currently, we inject anti-fingerprinting scripts in every frame. There is a solution to this, but due to limitations in the browser extension api it may make the extension less effective in other ways. I'm currently looking into this. But for now, I've made the anti-fingerprinting code more robust to errors.

    Thanks,
    -cowlicks
  • by Stealth, 7 years ago
    Breaking DuckDuckGo is a show stopper for me.

    Is it possible to show everything that is being blocked? (correction - I have uBlock, uMatrix, and DuckDuckGo Privacy App; when I disabled all three I saw that PP was blocking the items that it was formerly not seeing and hence not reporting)

    ***Update***
    Thank you for fixing it!

    Developer response

    posted 7 years ago
    Hi, Thank you for the bug report! I've deployed a fix for this. Please let me know if you have any other issues.
  • by Firefox user 13976507, 7 years ago
  • by Firefox user 11640498, 7 years ago
    What a fantastic add-on!
    Thank you to the Developer!

    I suggest users to go to the PrivacyPossum Github page.
    There you will find great details and explanations about this nice add-on.
    More important, also at PP Github, users will find comparisons with other similar add-ons related to spoofing, privacy etc. This is a nice job done by the Developer, in order to help users to choose the best add-on.

    By the way, the Developer is very responsive.
    Feel free to share with him questions or suggestions. The Developer is not just happy on answer, but also he is very fast presenting solutions.

    I foresee an enormous potential to this add-on.