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CSLite, Adblock Plus, NoScript and DownloadHelper
Control Cookies with CS-Lite
Using CS-Lite, you may very conveniently determine for which websites to
accept cookies and for which to block them. If you click on the CS-Lite icon
with your left mouse button, you are given the
following options for the currently visited web site:
- Temporarily allow
The Cookie is only accepted for the current browser session and will be removed afterwards. After browser restart, the website is no longer allowed to read or set a Cookie. This is the recommended setting. - Allow
for session
The Cookie is only accepted for the current browser session and will be removed afterwards. After browser restart, the website may set a new cookie. - Allow
The cookie is stored in the browser as long as the website has defined. It may be kept and accessed by the web site even after browser restart. - Remove
Any rule you set for the website before is removed. The website is no longer allowed to read or set a cookie.
Warning: You should never use the option 
Allow Cookies Globally
if possible. This allows cookies from all websites that have not been
explicitly blocked, and others
may track your steps on the Web.
Filter advertisements with AdblockPlus
AdblockPlus 
is
an advertisement filter that runs in the background. Usually, you do not have
to alter its settings. However, you may add your own filter lists any time.
Control active contents with NoScript
NoScript 
lets you
conveniently control which potential dangerous scripts and plugins from a
website your browser may execute or not.
Controlling installed plugins
When you visit a website containing plugin content like Flash movies or Java applets, this content will be automatically blocked by NoScript. A placeholder is shown instead of the active content:
You may allow the content by clicking on the placeholder or by choosing the
respective option in 
Blocked Objects after clicking
on the NoScript menu icon .
Warning: Without special protective measures, allowed plugin content may completely or partially revoke your anonymity and might even damage your system.
Controlling JavaScript
If you click on the NoScript icon you get a list of
all addresses/service providers with JavaScript code on the currently visited
web site. The respective entries are marked with the
icon:
By clicking on Temporarily allow you
activate scripts for this entry. By another click
you may easily remove this permission again (see image below). If you would like to remove the
permissions for all addresses, you just have to click on 
Revoke temporary
permissions.
Warning: You should give as few permissions as possible, and if possible only for the currently visited website. Third party scripts are often only used to spy on you and are rarely needed for proper functionality of the website.
If you generally distrust any address you may classify it
untrusted, and it will no more show up within the addresses you might
allow. In order to make this classification, move your mouse over the option
Untrusted. Then, you
get an overview of all the addresses on the current website which you may mark
untrusted:
You may undo this action just the same way.
Protection against dangerous flash videos: Downloading videos with DownloadHelper and aTube Catcher
To prevent having to activate dangerous Flash in your browser, you should always download web videos to your hard drive and play them from there. This also saves you the additional traffic which would be needed to view a streaming video again. Besides some links to video download sites, JonDoFox contains the download tool DownloadHelper for this purpose. If you are visiting e.g. a YouTub page, just click on the black triangle left to the address bar (marked in red) and select the video you would like to download:
For Windows and Linux (under WINE), there also exists an excellent freeware program called aTube Catcher. You may configure this program for JonDo by activating the HTTP proxy in aTube tcher in Tools->Connection settings and setting it to Host:127.0.0.1 and Port: 4001
For playing movies of all video formats on all operating systems, the free VideoLAN Media Player is a very good choice.
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