"safe" way to use sites w/o the usual blocking?

[Michaell]

I am being pressured into using web sites that I don't trust. I'm wondering if anyone else has worked out a procedure for using such sites with a minimal amount of privacy loss and as secure at the user's end as possible. Using other browsers is not ideal because I can't block things as precisely with those as I typically do in Pale Moon. My biggest concern is online banking (the old fashioned dial up access not smart phone app) is failing frequently and they expect us to use the web. I'm very reluctant to use that knowing how almost all web sites are now. I had to use a Chromium based browser yesterday for a social media account and uBlock seemed to no longer block images. I can imagine all the leaks of info that might occur using one of those browsers for banking. Doctor's offices are trying to get me to use the web too but I have resisted that so far.

Would Sandboxie help any? I assume a VPN would either not work or would cause problems. I have been relying heavily on eMatrix for fine-tuned blocking in PM (and uBlockOrigin for the filter lists) but the other browsers don't have anything comparable (it's also hard to get sites to work without unblocking everything). NoScript in Firefox forks doesn't work as well. So I'm stumped on how I can use some of these sites and still maintain some control of privacy and security at my end.

[therube]

separate Profiles

Privacy Mode

NoScript (a no-no in these parts)
uBlock Origin (pretty much required these days)


For places where I'm forced to use a different browser, I use FF instead, & set up separate Profiles - for a specific purpose, only.
So my bank has its Profile.
CashApp (or whatever it is called) has its Profile.
I have one called IRS. (Which covers IRS / SSA / particular state web pages that no longer work in a normal browser.)

I fire those up as needed & then close them down.


Things outside of that, where I don't need a different browser, I use my regular, every day Profile, but even there, I may thrown in separate Profiles & Private Windows.

[Lucio Chiappetti]

I am being pressured into using web sites that I don't trust. ... My biggest concern is online banking

If you don't trust your bank, maybe you should change it.
I would be (I am) more concerned about browsers (and browser providers) I do not trust.

For the bank my only concern is that my credentials stored on my computer could be stolen, and my solution is (1) not to have the browser remember them; (2) use a private window to access the bank site. Other concerns are for credit card numbers when buying something online, and my solution is to use one-time virtual card numbers (offered by my bank).

All other concerns about stored password, or tracking, are of a lesser order, privacy concerns, could be a nuisance but not a damage. I do not keep an history beyond 2 days, I delete cookies at browser exit, or even earlier (when closing a tab, using cookies exterminator)

[null_ID]

@Michaell

Read about booting a Linux live system into RAM straight from a USB flash drive. This bypasses your normal OS and, indeed, your entire hard drive/SSD completely and creates a temporary Linux OS session directly into RAM that WILL NOT USE PERSISTENCE of any kind, and will not touch your installed storage devices, unless you specifically okay doing so when prompted during shutdown, or manually mount a volume for read/write operations yourself. Else, your session will simply be flushed completely from memory on shutdown/reboot. Tracking cookies, scripts, even potential malware will just disappear completely on reboot, unless they somehow manage to infect your system's UEFI, but in practice I've yet to see any that could successfully pull this off. Read about distros like Puppy Linux, Fatdog, Porteux, Slax and Tails that behave in the described manner, and familiarize yourself with the term "frugal install". All the listed systems are, or at least should be very compatible and friendly with Pale Moon's Linux builds.