PrivDog - New browser extension

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I am posting this one in suggestions because Dark0ne may actually approve the way this works, and as a recommend for anti malvertisements as opposed to the more severe AdBlock or hosts file solutions ..

 

If not, then its a heads up on a new browser extension :)

 

If anyone is using Ghostery ( Better Advertising / Evidon ) you might want to have a look at replacing it with this ..

 

 

For Firefox and Chrome ( and in a future version it will also be for Internet Explorer )

 

http://www.privdog.com/index.html

 

Forum at Comodo https://forums.comodo.com/privdog-b303.0/

 

Its also included in the latest Comodo Dragon ( if anyone else uses it besides me :) ) ..

http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php

Forum https://forums.comodo.com/news-announcements-feedback-cd-b203.0/

 

 

Comodo's CEO Melih owns it, along with the startup support organisation AdTrustMedia LLC

 

They want to make money out of the idea obviously, but on the face of it the goals are about protecting user Security and Privacy by killing Malvertisements which try to slip in your face / machine.

 

Worst case scenario .. Its no worse than Ghostery ( if you have any suspicion there may be any under the radar qualities about its behaviour .. I dont currently ), it does all that Ghostery did, and filters out malvertisements ( nexus goers will have seen that mentioned a couple of times, because occasionally nexus ads cant be guaranteed malware free - The purview of this extension looks like it would stop those cases in their tracks, without completely blocking ads )

 

 

@ Moderators, give Dark0ne a poke on this one if he does not see it, its potentially a nice recommend. Probably needs a bit of time to study to see exactly what it does do and how it may affect Nexus economy. You would be the best judge of that.

 

From a users POV its looking pretty good to me.

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Pardon me but I forgot to mention ..

 

Site owners can register with them

 

And still get paid for adverts that get blocked and replaced with clean ads