Cover your tracks question

[chris_b]

Hi Guys, anyone use this tool to check out the safety of your web access?

 

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org

 

Is it useful? Safe? Any comments?

 

Cheers

Edited 15 hours ago by chris_b

[pete.young]

Not seen this particular tool before, but EFF has a long and positive history so I'm inclined to trust them.

 

My firefox browser gets a pretty good report. I guess it might be useful if you get a bad report and change your browser security model because of it. If this really bothers you, you should probably be looking at Privacy Badger, another of their tools.

 

 

[chris_b]

42 minutes ago, pete.young said:

Not seen this particular tool before, but EFF has a long and positive history so I'm inclined to trust them.

 

My firefox browser gets a pretty good report. I guess it might be useful if you get a bad report and change your browser security model because of it. If this really bothers you, you should probably be looking at Privacy Badger, another of their tools.

 

 

 

Hi Pete, I just ran this and my Firefox browser got a very good report. I have Privacy Badger, but also saw a very strong recommendation for Ublock Origin. The guy who recommended CYT thought that Tor, Mulvad and Brave were the best browsers. I've never heard of them. I'm very non technical and all this is a puzzle to me. Thanks for the reply.

[pete.young]

I've used Brave. Like Chrome, it's  based on the Chromium browser engine, but unlike Chrome it doesn't collect data about you and has many privacy and security features that Chrome lacks. I think it's a really good browser but I've remained on Firefox because I've been using it since it was first released and it does everything I need it to do.

 

Tor is the browser that goes with the Tor network. I'm not sure you would want to just use the browser if you weren't using the Tor network. Mullvad's main product is a VPN. The Mullvad browser was developed by the Tor project team, the difference being that Mullvad browser is intended to be used with a VPN product (probably Mullvad) instead of the Tor network.

[chris_b]

Thanks for the info.

 

Firefox also got a good review so I think I'll be sticking with that. I get a VPN with my Norton 360.

[tauzero]

4 hours ago, chris_b said:

 

Hi Pete, I just ran this and my Firefox browser got a very good report. I have Privacy Badger, but also saw a very strong recommendation for Ublock Origin. The guy who recommended CYT thought that Tor, Mulvad and Brave were the best browsers. I've never heard of them. I'm very non technical and all this is a puzzle to me. Thanks for the reply.

 

Ublock Origin is now obsolete but there's Ublock Origin Lite which I use (in my case, with Chrome, and I also use Ghostery and Stands adblocker).

[chris_b]

2 hours ago, tauzero said:

 

Ublock Origin is now obsolete but there's Ublock Origin Lite which I use (in my case, with Chrome, and I also use Ghostery and Stands adblocker).

 

After a quick read. . . . seems Ublock Origin is obsolete on Chrome, but is still supported on Firefox.