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Posted January 31, 2018
nevermind... sorry.
Post edited January 31, 2018 by OldFatGuy
Posted January 31, 2018
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OldFatGuy: Been using Firefox for quite a few years.

Please, I'm very..... different... when it comes to this sort of thing (for example, I never, EVER use Google), so if that tends to stir your ire, please stop here. I know what sort of thing i want... but it probably doesn't exist.

First of all... the nots. Anything to do with Google, Yahoo, or any of the corpo/government spy assholes out there. Yeah, they can still spy on me... but I'm not going to just hand it to them. I think most people know what browsers I'm ruling out here. (Some will say all of them... that's where we'd quibble a bit).

But Firefox "upgraded" to something different... and then my download manager wouldn't work any more. So... I restored my computer to a previous date, set Firefox to not update at all..... and well... you see the problem there. No way that's safe for very long. And it's been awhile now. I need to do something.
To be honest, i'm a little peeved with firefox being about choice and all, yet, at the same time, they turn around and remove my bookmarks and everything because it's not compatible with the new default design. Honestly, i don't care about the new design, i just want security updates. That said, you can always restore the old interfaces.

I just want a browser that at least doesn't feed directly to the NSA, and with a GOOD, the faster the better, download manager. No matter what browser I've used (and I have believe it or not tried a lot of them) download speeds on this 200Mbs network cap at 3.3 to 3.7 MBs. Doesn't matter the site. Doesn't matter the browser. Then when I add a download manager.... well as an example with Steam's built in one I get over 30MBs. 10 times faster. With DownThemAll (or something like that) for Firefox here at GoG I go from the 3.5MBs to 15MBs or so... big difference.
Download managers are a joke that preyed upon people in the early 2000s and earlier who didn't know better when it came to how internet bandwidth worked (some got by per-connection throttling by opening multiple connections, but that's considered bannable offense in most places, now). The speed of a download is determined by what the server's offering you and what your ISP is willing to let you have. Not sure where your speed from DownThemAll comes from, but my guess would be you could be abusing the connection throttling, which i would imagine gog could come back at you for.

I don't do any business online (meaning I don't operate any sort of web store or web site even). I do my banking, some shopping, and mostly browsing and reading.... and downloading and playing games. Can anyone help me?
The problem is, what are you willing to consider necessary? I mean, you could use something like offbyone if that's still around. And everyone and their brother has a browser that's basically a fork of one of the more common browsers. Before I would even take any suggestions from gog users or anyone else, i'd highly advise you on learning how HTTP works. It'd save you alot of trouble. Learning about HTML and javascript wouldn't hurt, either.
Post edited January 31, 2018 by kohlrak
Posted January 31, 2018
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kohlrak: The problem is, what are you willing to consider necessary? I mean, you could use something like offbyone if that's still around. And everyone and their brother has a browser that's basically a fork of one of the more common browsers. Before I would even take any suggestions from gog users or anyone else, i'd highly advise you on learning how HTTP works. It'd save you alot of trouble. Learning about HTML and javascript wouldn't hurt, either.
Okay, sorry, guess I should have done that first.
Post edited January 31, 2018 by OldFatGuy
Posted January 31, 2018
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kohlrak: The problem is, what are you willing to consider necessary? I mean, you could use something like offbyone if that's still around. And everyone and their brother has a browser that's basically a fork of one of the more common browsers. Before I would even take any suggestions from gog users or anyone else, i'd highly advise you on learning how HTTP works. It'd save you alot of trouble. Learning about HTML and javascript wouldn't hurt, either.
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OldFatGuy: Okay, sorry, guess I should have done that first.
Remember, if you're afraid of someone taking advantage of you, it's helpful to find out how they could or world, especially before asking random people how to keep certain people from taking advantage of you. Although i would doubt people here would try to take advantage of the situation to make a suggestion that would allow them to take advantage of you, i also doubt anyone here is educated enough to make an educated answer, despite how much they may pretend to know.
Posted January 31, 2018
Check out browser called Brave. Haven't tried it myself, but it looks good.
Posted January 31, 2018
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vsr: Check out browser called Brave. Haven't tried it myself, but it looks good.
At least you're honest. XD
Posted January 31, 2018
with the dismemberment of net neutrality there is no "safe browser" they all have ties to all the major "search engines" thus reporting your activity to companies such as the NSA or add targeting agencies, They ONLY way to keep your personal information off the WWW is to go cold turkey, stop using it....

Now that being said you can set ANY browser to go incognito when you open it meaning it "doesn't" (supposedly) track your activity, even tho your ISP will be able to tell whomever exactly your activity.
Also, Set yourself up behind a VPN (virtual private network) to further restrict the availability of your information.
for your network invest in a inexspensive router to go behind your ISP's modem as it further hides your individual devices behind a single IP adress, and it has a firewall that can be locked down as tight as you want. if your worried about people getting your information from your network, LOCK it down, Absolutely no wireless and only allow a predetermied connection to your network, like for example every device has a MAC (machine acsess code adress) you could only allow those MAC adresses you know to connect to your network.

In conclusion the only way you will be safe from spying is to not be on the web, or if you "Must" be on the web layer your security so thick that hackers will give up and go after easier targets.
Posted January 31, 2018
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Dejavous: with the dismemberment of net neutrality there is no "safe browser" they all have ties to all the major "search engines" thus reporting your activity to companies such as the NSA or add targeting agencies, They ONLY way to keep your personal information off the WWW is to go cold turkey, stop using it....
Trusting the FCC to keep the NSA and CIA in line throught net neutrality? Net-neutrality was supported by comcast while it was simultaneously being used as an example of why we needed it? Frankly, you shouldn't trust the government to govern itself.

Also, you realize the NSA is not a company, right?
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Dejavous: In conclusion the only way you will be safe from spying is to not be on the web, or if you "Must" be on the web layer your security so thick that hackers will give up and go after easier targets.
SSH tunnel
Posted January 31, 2018
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Lookie,lookie.It done it again.Thanks for the laughs.
Posted January 31, 2018
TOR
Posted January 31, 2018
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Tauto: Lookie,lookie.It done it again.Thanks for the laughs.
What's the story, wishbone?
Posted January 31, 2018
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Tauto: Lookie,lookie.It done it again.Thanks for the laughs.
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kohlrak: What's the story, wishbone?
The little shiela thinks she's trolling me, jokes on her I don't give a rats a....
Posted January 31, 2018
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kohlrak: What's the story, wishbone?
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Dejavous: The little shiela thinks she's trolling me, jokes on her I don't give a rats a....
I feel i'm still missing some context.
Posted January 31, 2018
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Dejavous: The little shiela thinks she's trolling me, jokes on her I don't give a rats a....
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kohlrak: I feel i'm still missing some context.
you'r not missing much T is about as good a troll as he is at dating humans, in other words he's terrible at it.
Posted January 31, 2018
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GR00T: TOR
Good for visiting places where you don't want the site owners to know from where you are connecting. Like that one Finnish anarchist site that I sometimes visit, as they have apparently banned me there (not sure how, possibly IP based). Apparently they didn't like it when in one discussion I thanked the Finnish police for keeping the violent protesters at bay during the Finnish independence day celebrations (the anarchists always try to cause ruckus on the independence day, as if it is wrong to celebrate it; do they have the same in Canada and US?).

Bad for more established sites like gog.com where you log in, as TOR can't keep you logged in when you move to different pages on gog.com.
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