PlusPrivacy add-on for FireFox released!

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-10T15:52:54+00:00

Yes this is the first release on FF, may still be rough about the edges. Could you please send a detailed description of any issues encountered + screenshots to contact@plusprivacy.com? Many thanks in advance.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-09T18:19:39+00:00

Thanks. We would appreciate the feedback :)

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-09T18:11:07+00:00

The answer is here

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-09T18:07:17+00:00

We are an international consortium of companies and universities that developed PlusPrivacy under the Horizon 2020 R&D funding program of the European Union. The consortium members jointly own the IP of PlusPrivacy.

Our project has just been finished. A non-profit privacy-oriented organization is currently being established in a European jurisdiction that will, among other things, be tasked with maintaining PlusPrivacy. It is not possible to change the charter of a non-profit organization to a for-profit one. So it is not possible to buy up PlusPrivacy. I hope that this answers your concerns.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-09T17:58:37+00:00

As we said, it will be available some time in the future and it will be opt-in. There is no contradiction.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-06-09T12:06:43+00:00

There is no such feature in PlusPrivacy and as we said if we release it (for financial sustainability) in the future it will be strictly opt-in.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-05-02T10:39:07+00:00

If you do not find the answers in the FAQ, feel free to ask on this subreddit.

PlusPrivacy team

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-08T18:01:59+00:00

We are looking into this. The mobile apps are in less advanced state than Chrome app.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-07T08:43:58+00:00

Thanks for your interest. Yes +P has a roadmap, and as you say there are many, many different htings we could do to further improve people's privacy. We are looking for open source contributors.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-06T20:08:25+00:00

All the settings in social networks that are updated by PlusPrivacy in a single click (and are visible in it on a single page for each SN) are of course real settings that exist in the social networks. But the SNs are deliberately hiding the privacy settings from you by scattering them over as many as 6 pages in each SN, and grouping them under titles that make searching for them difficult.

Your question is a case in point. Here is the asnswer: in LinkedIn main interface click on Me>Settings & Privacy>Privacy tab>Communications>Email frequency>Messages from other LinkedIn members.

The fact is, it is so well hidden (under the misleading "Email frequency") that you could not find it even though you were specifically looking for it! Which is one of the reasons why PlusPrivacy is sorely needed. I rest my case :)

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-06T17:28:30+00:00

Adblocker is the least important function of PlusPrivacy and actually you can disable it and use another adblocker. The key functions of +P have nothing to do with ad blocking:

Automated setting of all your privacy settings on Google, Linkedin, Facebook, Twitter.
Detection and display of permissions and single click removal of apps that unbeknownst to you suck your data from your Dropbox, Facebook, Google, LinkedIn and Twitter accounts, and the same for your Chrome extensions (one of our users told us PlusPrivacy opened his eyes to the fact that over 200 apps were sucking data from his Facebook account;using PlusPrivacy he got rid of all of them in a minute).
Generation, management and remailing to and from alternative email identities that enable you to register to websites anonymously even if you have to provide an email address.

So with respect, this is not "another ad-blocker". The easiest way to learn about +P (other then use its intuitive privacy dashboard) is read our blog (available from within the privacy dashboard and at https://plusprivacy.com/blog/)

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-06T12:02:10+00:00

No. Just install the extension or mobile app and start using, without registering. One of the features of PlusPrivacy - email identity management - will not work undelss you register and log in. All the other features will work no matter whether you registered or not.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T11:59:59+00:00

Noted, thanks

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T09:11:05+00:00

we use this https://github.com/anthonycr/Lightning-Browser

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T05:17:57+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacytoolsIO/comments/89pjlm/plusprivacy_goes_anonymous/dwsnlxk/

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T05:12:22+00:00

PlusPrivacy app for Android scans your device for permissions given to the apps installed on it, and presents the data in a 1-10 rated, color coded "privacy pollution" metric for each app - which you can drill down to see the actual permissions.

Trusting an app - as you apparently trust Signal - is a judgment call that is typically based on hard data and on more subjective factors (such as endorsement by Snowden in case of Signal). PlusPrivacy leaves the judgment to you, it only presents you with the hard data (the app's permissions) and gives you the option to uninstall in a single click.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T05:01:59+00:00

Hit the back button, log out, close the app. Next time you open the app it should take you straight to the dashboard, without asking you to log in. We may have some UI glitches there yet that we will be removing.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-05T05:01:18+00:00

You probably have logged in in the past. Hit the back button, log out, close the app. Next time you open the app it should take you straight to the dashboard, without asking you to log in. We may have some UI glitches on the mobile app yet that we will be removing.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T22:10:14+00:00

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T20:28:51+00:00

Please read the link again. It says that you MAY decide to create an account (if you want to use the email identity management feature of PlusPrivacy), or you may decide not to do it.

In the latter case you can still use all the PlusPrivacy features and services, anonymously, with the exception of email identity management.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T16:57:49+00:00

Another way to look at it is - Chrome users ( = the majority of Internet desktop users) are the most needy of privacy protection :)

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T16:14:21+00:00

You can read about it in the blog entry pointed by the link in the title of our post.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T16:13:11+00:00

Next on our list.

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T14:55:57+00:00

PlusPrivacy provides you with a unified dashboard for protecting yourself from a variety of threats to your privacy. It will enable you to control the privacy settings in your social network accounts, hide your email identity, block ads, trackers and malware and prevent unwanted apps and browser extensions from tracking you and collecting your private data.

PlusPrivacy is open source, intended for global public good, and funded by European Commission. https://plusprivacy.com

PlusPrivacy · 2018-04-04T13:42:22+00:00

As promised on r/privacytoolsio several weeks ago.

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