Category: Safe Browsing

BetterPrivacy

Better Privacy serves to protect against special longterm cookies, a new generation of 'Super-Cookie', which silently conquered the Internet. This new cookie generation offers unlimited user tracking to industry and market research. Concerning privacy Flash-cookies are most critical. This add-on was made to make users aware of those hidden, never expiring objects and to offer …

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NortonTM ConnectSafe for Home

Norton ConnectSafe for Home is a free service that provides a first layer of defense by blocking unsafe sites automatically. On a computer, Norton ConnectSafe does not replace the comprehensive protection of a full security product such as Norton Internet Security or Norton 360. Instead, Norton ConnectSafe provides basic browsing protection and content filtering for …

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WOT – Safe Surfing

WOT is the leading website reputation rating tool and one of Mozilla’s most popular add-ons. WOT uses a traffic-light rating system to show you which websites you can trust when you search, surf and shop online. WOT ratings are powered by a global community of millions of users who rate millions of websites based on …

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tamperdata

TamperData is an extension to track and modify http/https requests.It shows what information the web browser is sending on your behalf, such as cookies and hidden form fields. Use of this plugin can reveal web applications that trust the client not to misbehave Download tamperdata

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NoScript Firefox extension

The NoScript Firefox extension provides extra protection for Firefox, Seamonkey and other mozilla-based browsers: this free, open source add-on allows JavaScript, Java, Flash and other plugins to be executed only by trusted web sites of your choice (e.g. your online bank). NoScript also provides the most powerful anti-XSS and anti-Clickjacking protection ever available in a …

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