Linux Xubuntu internet privacy
Configure Linux Xubuntu flash, java and Firefox for more privacy on internet.
Firefox 122.0 and higher web browser privacy settings:
Files:
Cache: temporary Firefox files:
/home/user3/.cache/mozilla/firefox/3bbd5mqg.default-release/cache2/
/home/username/snap/firefox/common/.cache/
Firefox:
Cookie, history denial and removal for Firefox:
Click top, right: Open application menu, Settings, Privacy & Security
General icon:
Language: English (GB)
Choose your preferred language for displaying pages: English (GB)
Downloads
Browse, change folder
Digital Rights Management (DRM) Content
Select: Play DRM-controlled content
Browsing
Unselect: Control media via keyboard, headset, or virtual interface
Home icon:
New Window and Tabs
Custom URLs...
Homepage and new windows: file:///home/index.htm
New tabs: Firefox Home Default
Firefox Home Content: unselect all
Remove extra bar under Search Bar:
right-click the bar, Bookmarks Toolbar: Never Show
Search icon:
Search Bar
Right click url bar: Customise Toolbar...
Drag Search in firefox top bar
Search Suggestions:
Unselect all but: Show search suggestions
Search Shortcuts
Find more search engines
Default Search Engine: MetaGer Search (English)
Search Shortcuts:
Unselect all, remove Google and Amazon
Privacy & Security icon:
Browser Privacy
Enhanced Tracking Protection
Custom: Choose which trackers and scripts to block.
select: Cookies, Cryptominers, Fingerprinters, both
Cookies: Cookies from unvisited websites
Tracking content, In all windows: blocks login website Videoland
Tracking content: Only in private windows, or Disabled
Suspected fingerprinters: Only in private windows
Web Site Privacy Preferences
Send websites a “Do Not Track” request
Cookies and Site Data
Your stored cookies, site data and cache are currently using 42.4 MB of disk space.
Unselect: History: Clear history when Firefox closes, first.
Select: Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed
Some banks require some cookies to stay.
The bank needs its bank.com name added to: Manage Exceptions.
Passwords
unselect all
History
Firefox will: Use custon settings for history
Clear history, unselect: Active logins, Site settings
Time range to clear: Everything
Clear Now
Select only: Clear history when firefox closes
Some banks require some cookies to stay.
The exact settings below are needed for this.
Settings:
select all but: Active logins, Site settings
OK
Address Bar
When using the address bar, suggest:
Browsing history
Bookmarks
unselect the others
Permissions
Autoplay
Settings: Default for all web sites: Block Audio and Video
Remove both websites (which does not work) Save Changes
Select:
Block pop-up windows
Warn you when websites try to install add-ons
Firefox Data Collection and Use
unselect all, except:
Allow Firefox to send technical and interaction data to Mozilla
Allow Firefox to send backlogged crash reports on your behalf
Security
Deceptive Content and Dangerous Software Protection
unselect all
Certificates
select: Query OCSP responder servers to confirm the current validity of certificates
HTTPS-Only Mode
Don't enable HTTPS-Only Mode
Enable DNS over HTTPS using:
Default Protection
Extensions & Themes icon:
Shows: installed Dictionaries
Latest update: February 3, 2024
Firefox configuration manager.
You can adjust the configuration in Firefox by editing a property list:
type where the url is located usually: about:config
and the list appears
Turn off search in address bar:
keyword.enabled click twice to change it to: false
Turn on tracking protection, blocks, in stead of asking not to track:
privacy.trackingprotection.enabled click twice and change it to: true
Turn off Location-Aware Browsing:
geo.enabled click twice and change it to: false
Block website autoplay:
media.autoplay.block-event.enabled click twice and change it to: true
media.autoplay.blocking_policy click twice and change it to: 0 -> 1
media.autoplay.default click twice and change it to: 5
The internet computer IPv6 nr.: a privacy issue caused by IPv6.
Your IPv6 connection to the internet:
Any computer connected to the internet does so with an IP number.
This is just like your home address: state, city, street address and apartment number.
Together it is unique.
Currently IPv4 is running out of numbers, so IPv6 starts to be used.
It works similar, but different.
The new thing is that it contains the MAC-address of the apparatus connecting your computer to the internet or a periodically generated random value instead.
And this MAC-address, or random value, is unique.
Usually the MAC-address of e.g. the ADSL router is subject to this, not the MAC-address in your computer.
Improving your privacy on this point would mean changing the MAC-address, or random value, which could be possible.
And, something you should do now too, is having changed your IP number by your internet provider.
Or go to a different internet provider, he will give you a different IP number too.
The layout of an IPv6 number, it consists of 128 bits:
- the format prefix: 001, 3 bits
- the top-level aggregator allocated by IANA, to local internet service providers, 13 bits and 8 future use bits
- the next-level aggregator, for a specific customer site, 24 bits
- the site-level aggregator, for sites or subnets within a site, 16 bits
- the Extended Unique Identifier (EUI-64) address, 64 bits, of which 48 bits either assigned to or derived from the the MAC-address of the network card
- this totals 128 bits