Some of those require changing the internals of Firefox: about:config.
I wish Firefox would just have a big red button, Disable All, instead or requiring me to preform all the tasks listed in the link, when I install Firefox. Or even better, make those choices opt-in, instead of opt-out.
I'm not involved in Mega anymore. Neither in a managing nor in a shareholder capacity. The company has suffered from a hostile takeover by a Chinese investor who is wanted in China for fraud. He used a number of straw-men and businesses to accumulate more and more Mega shares. Recently his shares have been seized by the NZ government. Which means the NZ government is in control. In addition Hollywood has seized all the Megashares in the family trust that was setup for my children. As a result of this and a number of other confidential issues I don't trust Mega anymore. I don't think your data is safe on Mega anymore. But my non-compete clause is running out at the end of the year and I will create a Mega competitor that is completely open source and non-profit, similar to the Wikipedia model. I want to give everyone free, unlimited and encrypted cloud storage with the help of donations from the community to keep things going.
Note that certain adware/spyware domains, like google-analytics( look at the tags <maybe-spy> and <maybe-ads> ), are commented out, so edit the file as per your needs.
Google's re-capthas are coming from google.com, to block them add:
127.0.0.1 google.com
127.0.0.1 www.google.com
This may be a tough choice to make, depending on how integrated has Google become with your life ( note how I phrased this relationship ).
Fabricating facts and using ad-hominem is not a very good way of backing up your arguments.
Quote from the paper:
We use the public GREYC keystroke benchmark database for this work. It is one of the largest databases (in term of number of users and sessions) in keystroke dynamics. To out knowledge, no existing database contains more individuals. In order to reduce the bias due to this high quantity of male information, we only kept the first n male samples( where n is the number of female samples).
( Don't bother with your response, I won't be reading it. )
I think you misunderstood the intention of this feature. The goal is to identify and/or profile users that themselves use just a regular log-in. This can be then used to improve targeted marketing, selling that information to third-parties for example.
Note how the article mentions that the gender can be determined after a few keystrokes, even though the user never entered that specific information. This is certainly not the only metric that can be identified. The point of the article is to develop a solution to prevent leakage of private/personal information.
Ironically if you want to prevent Firefox to "phone home", you will have performs many obscure tasks:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/firefox/
Some of those require changing the internals of Firefox: about:config.
I wish Firefox would just have a big red button, Disable All, instead or requiring me to preform all the tasks listed in the link, when I install Firefox. Or even better, make those choices opt-in, instead of opt-out.