On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 21:13:56 -0500, micky
wrote:

On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 16:44:46 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

411.com and whitepages.com seem to work OK.
Switchboard worked for me.... sort of. First it didn't
find a name or a business I was looking for. Then
when I tried it again it said I needed to solve a
captcha. But the same searches worked on the other
two sites. (Which is odd. I think whitepages.com and
switchboard.com are the same company.)

I thought 411 and switchboard were the same company! 411 tightened up
on what they gave for free a month or three before swtichboard did.

Yesterday because of this thread, I looked myself up in swtichboard, and
it offers to find neighbors, so today I thought this would make it a
little easier to look up a lot of my neihbors.**.

For one of them, still on switchboard, it went to a captcha requiest on
whitepages.com. So that makes mayayana right about that. The captcha
was easy, a picture of a house number, but it failed and they said that
it was their fault. I went back and tried agaiin, another house number,
and still didn't work. Anyhow that makes Chris right about having to
enter captchas sometimes. Checking, I see t here are ads, but I
barely notice them.


**I'm going away in the spring for a month or two and I might need to
call a neighbor.

My results may vary because I don't enable script,
cookies, 3rd-party ads, or iframes. I just see a very
plain page, with the returns on a similarly plain page.

Since you suggested noscript I've been using it, in Firefox, but an
awful lot of pages won't work for me, and I don't know which script to
permit first. Javascript itself is not listed as a choice.

Plus when I try to display a pdf file in FF nothing at all happens and
there usually are no noscript options to allow anything. I have to go
to SeaMonkey.

Of course I woudl have been happy just to download most pdf files, but
that's no longer offered and the add-on pdf-download which used to work
great 4 years ago doesn't do anything now.

| Since you suggested noscript I've been using it, in Firefox, but an
| awful lot of pages won't work for me, and I don't know which script to
| permit first. Javascript itself is not listed as a choice.
|

The choices are not types of script but sources.
They're all javascript. Usually if a site needs script it
will work to just enable the script from that domain.
Other script from places like Google or ad companies
is generally not needed. But every time you change
the options it will refresh, so it's not hard to just
enable them one at a time until it works.

Example: I just went to time.com. The bottom
item in NoScript options is time.com. If I have trouble
I'll enable that. If I still have trouble I can enable
timeinc.com. I see 5 other domains where script
is coming from. Three are ad/tracking sites and two
are wordpress. It's unlikely that any of those actually
need to be enabled for the page to work.

| Plus when I try to display a pdf file in FF nothing at all happens and
| there usually are no noscript options to allow anything. I have to go
| to SeaMonkey.
|
| Of course I woudl have been happy just to download most pdf files, but
| that's no longer offered and the add-on pdf-download which used to work
| great 4 years ago doesn't do anything now.

I download all PDFs. I figure that if I want a PDF in
the first place I probably want a copy of it. If you
don't have something assigned to open it then it
will download as any other download.

Unless they've changed it in the past few versions
of Firefox, you can just do the following to have PDFs
treated like ZIPs or other binaries:

Tools - Options - Applications - PDF - Always Ask

On Sun, 28 Dec 2014 17:14:20 -0500, "Mayayana"
wrote:

| Since you suggested noscript I've been using it, in Firefox, but an
| awful lot of pages won't work for me, and I don't know which script to
| permit first. Javascript itself is not listed as a choice.
|

The choices are not types of script but sources.
They're all javascript. Usually if a site needs script it
will work to just enable the script from that domain.
Other script from places like Google or ad companies
is generally not needed. But every time you change
the options it will refresh, so it's not hard to just
enable them one at a time until it works.

Example: I just went to time.com. The bottom
item in NoScript options is time.com. If I have trouble
I'll enable that. If I still have trouble I can enable
timeinc.com. I see 5 other domains where script
is coming from. Three are ad/tracking sites and two
are wordpress. It's unlikely that any of those actually
need to be enabled for the page to work.

Thanks. I'll check out Time especially.

| Plus when I try to display a pdf file in FF nothing at all happens and
| there usually are no noscript options to allow anything. I have to go
| to SeaMonkey.
|
| Of course I woudl have been happy just to download most pdf files, but
| that's no longer offered and the add-on pdf-download which used to work
| great 4 years ago doesn't do anything now.

I download all PDFs. I figure that if I want a PDF in
the first place I probably want a copy of it. If you
don't have something assigned to open it then it
will download as any other download.

Unless they've changed it in the past few versions
of Firefox, you can just do the following to have PDFs
treated like ZIPs or other binaries:

Tools - Options - Applications - PDF - Always Ask

I've looked at but actually never used the Applications tab.

I just checked. I have two versions (different profiles) of FF
running, and the first one I looked at had 3 different entries for pdf,
all set to Always Ask. This is th verion I had added Noscript to.

The other version had only one entry set to Always display or whoever
they set it. I set that to Always ask, but this is the version I wasn't
using when I added Noscript. Still I want to see what happens.

This is enough to keep me busy for a while Unless you can think of
something to add now, I'll get back to you in a few weeks on the xp
newsgroup. Do you mind if I ping your name in the subject line.

| This is enough to keep me busy for a while Unless you can think of
| something to add now, I'll get back to you in a few weeks on the xp
| newsgroup. Do you mind if I ping your name in the subject line.

Sure. That's OK. If you want something else
to keep you busy, check this out:

https://www.eff.org/privacybadger#wh...privacy_badger

I just found it yesterday. Very interesting. A Firefox
extension designed to learn by parsing pages you visit
and gradually block all tracking websites, without the
person using it needing to make an effort or understand
anything about online tracking.