Comments on: Firefox add-on lets surfers tweak sites, but is it safe?

Greasemonkey extension lets surfers insert links, change a look and feel, and more. But at what cost to security?

stop the fear mongering, you cretins!

I no more have to view inline webads than I have to look at billboards when I drive. In both cases the practice tends to be unwise. Had the adfirms stuck with mere images I might not have taken the approach of removing ALL content I'd rather not see. Since "they started it" with malware injected ads, evil activex, cross domain tracking cookies, and other PRIVACY intrusive methods I say turnabout is fair play.

Remember THEY didn't buy my hardware, they don't pay my monthly bills, and most imporatantly I AM NOT IN A CONTRACT WITH THEM. So I'm doing nothing illegal. "By viewing you accept" preambles are total feces!

If you have a defective business model that's hardly my problem. If you think you can charge for your oh so amazing content then do it. Good luck to you. I'm not going to stand in line to view some guy's opinion. I'll simply go elsewhere, thanks. GreaseMonkey is NOT a new concept. Piror to it I'd used Proxomitron. It fetches the page, modifies it as I SEE FIT, and passes it to the browser. And greasemonkey is not the only tool in my arsenal to change the world to my liking:

http://AdBlock.mozdev.org with FiltersetG
http://rip.mozdev.org -- click and it's gone

If I want to evade cross domain tracking cookies I combine

http://tor.eff.org
http://privoxy.com

based on this lovely article:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2288


"danger danger" is a weak attempt by the feeble to disuade the many from using an awesome tool. Remember "they" don't want you to have any privacy. Well fork them. It's my computer, thanks.

stop the fear mongering, you cretins!

I no more have to view inline webads than I have to look at billboards when I drive. In both cases the practice tends to be unwise. Had the adfirms stuck with mere images I might not have taken the approach of removing ALL content I'd rather not see. Since "they started it" with malware injected ads, evil activex, cross domain tracking cookies, and other PRIVACY intrusive methods I say turnabout is fair play.

Remember THEY didn't buy my hardware, they don't pay my monthly bills, and most imporatantly I AM NOT IN A CONTRACT WITH THEM. So I'm doing nothing illegal. "By viewing you accept" preambles are total feces!

If you have a defective business model that's hardly my problem. If you think you can charge for your oh so amazing content then do it. Good luck to you. I'm not going to stand in line to view some guy's opinion. I'll simply go elsewhere, thanks. GreaseMonkey is NOT a new concept. Piror to it I'd used Proxomitron. It fetches the page, modifies it as I SEE FIT, and passes it to the browser. And greasemonkey is not the only tool in my arsenal to change the world to my liking:

http://AdBlock.mozdev.org with FiltersetG
http://rip.mozdev.org -- click and it's gone

If I want to evade cross domain tracking cookies I combine

http://tor.eff.org
http://privoxy.com

based on this lovely article:

http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic=2288


"danger danger" is a weak attempt by the feeble to disuade the many from using an awesome tool. Remember "they" don't want you to have any privacy. Well fork them. It's my computer, thanks.