Posted on 09/28/2015 10:53:24 AM PDT by LowOiL
Yesterday a few of us got a warning that FR (the redirect page that goes to articles) was not allowed due to being a possible Malware site. This warning was placed up due to our browsers being in check with google which provides the browsers with a list of suspected Malware sites. When one tries to surf to a site that has been flagged as containing Malware or is known as a redirect portal that has been flagged as possible redirecting to bad sites it activates a warning page and will not let you proceed.
This can be a good thing on the surface. But the more I look at it the more warning flags pop up in my mind. A further investigation in yesterdays pop up warning that google put up said FR as flagged for redirecting to Aim.org. Aim.org seems like a good conservative site, but perhaps they hosted an advertisement that did give Malware. Perhaps they didn't and google just decided they didn't like their right-wing content (or FR's content). I don't know, I am just speculating here and not the brightest bulb on computer matters (don't worry, I will ask my questions later, just wait please).
Now this google pref cookie I found it now auto-builds into most browsers (perhaps all of them). YOU CAN NOT DELETE IT, it just reappears. Google I imagine pays browser makers millions to include it in their code.
Firefox has an option to turn off the warning, but it still does not get rid of the cookie. This cookie is used by the government (which somehow either piggybacks on the cookie or intercepts the data) to track people. The NSA says it is to track terrorists, but I don't believe them no more than I believe google is safe to give my personal data to. I don't like being tracked for whatever reason (even my own good).
https://threatpost.com/nsa-using-google-non-advertising-cookie-to-spy/103162/
Now my question to computer experts is this. Is there a browser that does not have google pref cookies built in it. Is there a way to disinfect Firefox.
I read that Comodo IceDragon at one time did have a way to defeat the cookie, but since it is based on Firefox (which after like build 27 made it where you could not defeat the cookie), I don't know if it still is safe.
I would love to be surfing safely again, and it makes me sick that all those add-ons for security I have been using really didn't stop the main intrusion of my privacy. I need good advice from people more in the know, so I pose the questions to you good people whom I trust.
Guess I wasn’t too clear on exactly what my main questions were... Listed below?
Is there a browser that does not have google pref cookies built in it? Is there a way to disinfect Firefox of autoloading the google pref cookies. Is there other super cookies I don’t even know about? Do you want to share some light on the subject, cause I am all ears...
I don’t really know either, but would avoiding anything related to Google stop this? There are alternative browsers and search engines.
Unfortunately what I have read, is browsers now are building this cookie into their code. It reloads, it does not show up in regular cookie lists to be deleted. This is a special google cookie that that loads that you must (for your own good) host. Some said even Opera has it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1042916
Use Ixquick as your homepage and search engine.
Try Vivaldi.
I don't think yall are getting the seriousness of this, it loads no matter what you do, it is built into the browsers put out now days. I use Startpage (which is owned by same company as Ixquick). I don't use google anything. It is still there and there is some out there that know how to defeat it. I am not one of them. It does not load in the list of cookies that can be deleted.
I use these privacy add-ons with Firefox. Adblock Edge (with extra lists added to block), Block Site, Clear Console (that delete all cookies after browser shutdown, except the google pref cookie), Flashblock, Ghostery, and Remove it Permanently.
It is not something I am doing, it is what they have done (bought browsers and contaminated them with spyware).
Pinging Swordmaker in case you knew something, or had friends that knew something. I don’t know if Apple also auto loads this cookie on their browsers also.
It's called the Off by One browser. It's as simple as it gets. Maybe not what you seek but it will get the job done.
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