How did you get Ghostery installed?
I checked the site, and it’s very outdated. It’s for Safari 5.4.10, Chrome 7.2.2, and Firefox 7.2.2. On my Mac, I have Safari 10.1.1, Chrome 57.0.2987.133, and Firefox 53.0.3.
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I checked the site, and it’s very outdated. It’s for Safari 5.4.10, Chrome 7.2.2, and Firefox 7.2.2. On my Mac, I have Safari 10.1.1, Chrome 57.0.2987.133, and Firefox 53.0.3.
I don't think that's correct. Unless I misunderstood, they were talking about the new version of Safari when they compared its speed with the competition.
This looks like some amazing updates to my favorite browser. Site-by-site setting are great addition.
Wish they would add a universal cookie crumbles on a timer, e.g. Every day/week/month delete all cookies and site data. This way you know you are getting a clean slate.
Wish they would add a universal cookie crumbles on a timer, e.g. Every day/week/month delete all cookies and site data. This way you know you are getting a clean slate.
Yeah, that would be great. It's a pain having to manually clean out cookies every few months. Besides, when you keep cookies for that long, you get pretty used to not having to log into sites, and then all of a sudden, you have to start logging into sites after you dump your browser's cookies. Though, I should probably start using a password manager one of these days.
Who cares. It works and the tracker list gets updated regularly.
And I seem to remember that they made a change to Ghostery, that wasn't very privacy friendly.
Ah, found this on addons.mozilla.org:
"First, I don't understand why I'm forced to store the settings in the cloud.
Second, it significantly slows down the browser during its start."
So, having the old version on Safari seems to actually be a good thing,
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That's what tracking prevention does.
Though only for sites you don't directly interact with; you probably wouldn't want to continually lose settings for sites you actually use.
Marketers can get the data they need without needing to track everyone even those who don't opt in. If you are blocked from using a website until you opt into tracking, that's fair game IMO.
I wish I could reliably use Safari for work purposes but it's just not better than Chrome for development. Otherwise I would use it exclusively.
I wish I could reliably use Safari for work purposes but it's just not better than Chrome for development. Otherwise I would use it exclusively.
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What ? Companies, Marketers, Governments, Agencies have been using the Internet to spy on us ? No, no, you are all paranoid. Everything is running fine in this world. Maybe a few Chinese and Russian hackers but we can always increase tax so that we attack them before they do, can't we?
We need those features for iOS Safari too!
Auto-playing videos are infuriating!
Auto-playing videos are infuriating!
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It is just Safari users and only on Macs. Probably most people use other browsers and Safari people can fly under the radar and enjoy a better web experience.
I was able to get it installed in Chrome, but not in Safari. But that's alright since I'm starting to use Chrome more than Safari, largely because it actually loads pages faster than Safari.Who cares. It works and the tracker list gets updated regularly.
And I seem to remember that they made a change to Ghostery, that wasn't very privacy friendly.
Ah, found this on addons.mozilla.org:
"First, I don't understand why I'm forced to store the settings in the cloud.
Second, it significantly slows down the browser during its start."
So, having the old version on Safari seems to actually be a good thing,
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That's what tracking prevention does.
Though only for sites you don't directly interact with; you probably wouldn't want to continually lose settings for sites you actually use.
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Well, 80% of the market is Windows, and most folks on Windows aren't going to use Safari because the Windows version is horribly out-of-date. Some Windows users use IE just out of habit. Others use Firefox or Chorme. Of those three, I'd say Chrome is the best. But if you want an open-source browser, you can use Chromium, which is Google's open-source version of Chrome.
[doublepost=1497282876][/doublepost]With all this talk about web browsers, I'm starting to think about using a password manager to make my switch from Safari to Chrome a little easier. Are there any cross-platform password managers which don't store passwords in "the cloud"?
I've been using Ghostery for years. It's been updated a few times and still works well. But I assume with the Safari update, it would be redundant.
That is the way I read it too; the new version will be the fastest.
I feel like I am one of the few people who actually use and enjoy safari.
I think it's because Apple's intentionally trying to keep Safari's battery usage low. Chrome is fast, but it's a huge battery hog honestly.
WebGL has nothing to do with video autoplay. Furthermore, there is no way to block HTML5 video autoplay.
So let me get this straight... amongst other things, Safari will be snappier?
These are nice additions to help with privacy. What we really need is an anti-fingerprinting technology. Ad trackers have moved to just fingerprinting your entire computer and using that to track you. Be great if Safari had a feature that would randomly change values (Fonts reported installed, CPU speed GPU type, even OS) so your fingerprint is constantly changing.
Safari browser is my most used and favourite browser. Just got a whole love more impressive to me at WWDC during the keynote.
So happy this auto-play nonsense is about to be blocked.
Haha CNN, Bleacher Report, ESPN, etc...
Haha CNN, Bleacher Report, ESPN, etc...
Worse yet is that Apple has put these webpage/websites on notice so they will have 4 months to find a way around this and trust me they will.
It will be interesting once High Sierra rolls out because it would be a major accomplish by Apple if they can make browsing even faster because generally when you put as blockers and other blocking stuff turned on it generally slows down your browsing not speeds it up.
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