Re: Request for privacy features in Epiphany

[Reinout van Schouwen <reinouts gnome org>]

Hello Claus,

> Thank you very much for your answer!

You're welcome, but in the future please follow up to the mailing list
instead of sending a private mail.

> >  is to install Privoxy and adjust the Gnome proxy
> > server settings accordingly. 

> The FoxyProxy - Plugin for Firefox provides really a easy way to use the
> functionality of this nice proxys.

Currently no equivalent to FoxyProxy exists for Epiphany as far as I
know.

> For sure I could configure the Gnome-Proxy-Settings to use TOR and
> Privoxy as default, but I would like to use them on specified sites!

You can configure Privoxy to do specific actions for specific URLs. See
http://config.privoxy.org/edit-actions-list?f=default (special
configuration URL that will let you edit rules if you're running
Privoxy).

Granted, a pretty GNOME frontend would be nice for this purpose.

> I dont know if you are aware of the discussion in Germany, Austria and
> some other European countries about storing all your connection data. In
> Poland they discuss even about storing the data 15! years.

As a resident of The Netherlands (data retention time 1,5 years) I'm
very well aware of this discussion.

> - allow/disallow a domain to store cookies
> - treat all cookies as session cookies 

You can actually achieve this by entering about:config and modifying
network.cookie.lifetimePolicy to 1, and/or using P3P[1] settings.
Of course, this isn't really a user-friendly solution. One way to solve
this could be for someone to pick up development of the (currently
unmaintained and not very functional) Site Permissions extension.

[1] http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.cookie.p3p

regards,

-- 
Reinout van Schouwen