On: How Britain Exported Next-Generation Surveillance

[dfc]

I have always loved requestpolicy but for some reason something about RPContinued makes me nervous. Policeman would be a great alternative if Sync worked[^1]. I cant use policeman if it means I have to jump through the same hoops on every firefox installation in order to get things set up.

[^1]: https://github.com/futpib/policeman/issues/28 Plus issues 92 and 95.

[hrjet → dfc]

Thanks to @JetSpiegel I just became aware of Policeman. And I am not sure why you are nervous about RPContinued.

So, I went ahead and created a wiki for this: https://github.com/UprootLabs/gngr/wiki/List-of-request-bloc...

If there are any known issues with RPContinued or there are other extensions that are not listed, please feel free to add them. Thanks.

[dfc → hrjet]

What is the mysterious "switchboard" column?

[hrjet → dfc]

The name for the concept comes from the name of the HTTP-SwitchBoard extension (predecessor to uMatrix). It's skeuomorphic.

The extensions which have a switchboard like interface enable the user to block requests based on the request's domain name, the primary frame's domain-name, and also the type of request.

In contrast, extensions like NoScript have a global switch. If I allow scripts from DontBeEvil.com, they are enabled on all domains. They don't prevent XSS attacks, for example.

If there's a better name for this concept, please do suggest one.

[MichaelCrawford → dfc]

That's used by the phone company to patch you into the NSA.

[JetSpiegel → dfc]

Policeman is still "beta", despite being quite usable. It just need polish.