Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Magisterarbeit - SemanticLab
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien Magisterarbeit - SemanticLab
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manager for Opera Software AS, stated that “at the moment, we aren’t sure whether<br />
P3P is the best solution” [IW01] - which may explain the lack of Opera’s P3P support.<br />
5.2. Plug-ins<br />
Figure 5.5.: Opera’s cookie settings<br />
The next section will briefly introduce selected plug-ins (or extensions) for Mozilla Firefox<br />
to enhance privacy. Due to the huge amounts of extensions available only some of<br />
the most popular ones could be picked for evaluation.<br />
5.2.1. Adblock Plus<br />
Adblock Plus is a Firefox extension that claims to eliminate 99% of advertisments shown<br />
on the web. The principle is simple: If you visit a website, the extension blocks all<br />
advertisments it can recognize. To recognize as many ads as possible, users provide<br />
extensive lists which include adservers, typical URLs of ads and even CSS-code which<br />
is normally used to position or display ads. This extensions has its use especially on<br />
websites which are overloaded with ads such as MySpace.com.<br />
5.2.2. NoScript<br />
NoScript allows the execution of active content such as JavaScript, Java and other plugins<br />
(Flash, Silverlight etc.) only if the user has defined the website as a trusted site.<br />
Therefore it is ideal to protect users from known or unknown scripting attacks such as<br />
cross-site scripting (XSS). Although it (temporarily) allows the execution of scripts via<br />
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