Let's talk about privacy

Now that CyberDragon 1.6.4 has been released I would like to take this
moment to discuss little bit about privacy settings & features.

Generally and specifically whith the CyberDragon.

First let's list some publicly known ways to track user online:

• Cookies. No surprise here and very well known by public.
  Cookies are the most common way of tracking you and
  especially persistent tracking cookies.

The problem with persistent cookies is that:
A) They are saved to your hard drive
B) Their lifetime can last years, particularly if the site that you visited
is continually renewing the said cookie(s).

So, what does CyberDragon do to protect you?

Here's how:

1) Not allow persistent tracking cookies

2) Only session cookies are allowed by default.
And even then only session cookies with HttpOnly attribute
(meaning no JavaScript is possible to use for cookie manipulation)
and Secure attribute
(cookie is allowed to be transferred only when using encrypted HTTPS connection)
are allowed

3) 3rd party cookies (cookies not belonging to site you are currently visiting)
are by default always blocked, session or non-session.

4) After passing all the above mentioned restrictions, cookie will be strored in
memory only. This means that the next time you start CyberDragon
it will be in tabula rasa state, completely empty of cookies. And now in 1.6.4
you can also explicitly clear any allowed cookies any time you wish.

• HTTP Referer. This is less know (and less often used) feature of HTTP protocol itself that can be
  used for tracking. Please see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer
  By default, all the HTTP Referer fields will be removed by CyberDragon.
  There might be some web pages that need HTTP Referer. In that case uncheck "Remove HTTP Referer"
  checkbox from General tab. I might in later version also include HTTP Referer Spoofing for these
  problematic web sites.

• Ads, transparent 1x1 image pixels. Any file, image etc... that is loaded from somewhere else than
  the currently visited web site can be to track you. For this the only defense is tracker blocker
  and list of bad URLs. As you know CyberDragon has built-in tracker blocker that contains by
  default over 6000 trackers. And these are regular expressions, meaning that their blocking power
  goes beyond that 6000. There is also optional tracker blocker list with 30,000 trackers listed
  included with CyberDragon but that list is still undergoing testing, so that's why it will stay
  optional for some time.

• Proxy fetcher & checker. This will allow you to hide your IP-address and your true location.
  Please read more from CyberDragonManual.pdf and it's Proxy chapter. Note: Always use
  High-anonymous proxies if possible and never use your web mail and/or online bank throught any
  proxy.

• Prevent Google tracking the search result links.

• HTTPS Enforcing. This feature will simply try to access any web site with encrypted HTTPS
  protocol first and if not possible fallback to HTTP. Wikipedia for example has both https and
  http version of their site but Google will not offer you the https by default. With this
  option on it is possible. Note: That this is still experimental feature and sometimes it can
  take very long time for web site to fallback from https to http, depending how buggy they are.

In addition CyberDragon:

• Does not offer extensions. When you install Firefox or Chrome extension it is often hard to know if the said extension is not doing something phony (like collecting data about your surfing) behind your back and phoning home. Heck, sometimes its even difficult to track the fellow responsible of making the tracking extension.

Because Im the only person doing development and gateway to features that will appear in CyberDragon it is pretty obvious that thatkind of thing will not happen with CyberDragon.
My ass would be in fire and reputation in stake. Also, I strongly believe that users should be able to always trust developer of the software.

There might come version of CyberDragon in future that may allow extensions but not right now. And even then I will not officially allow any extension to run within it untill tested, tested and tested.

Finally, if you don't watch YouTube videos, don't use Java and absolutely hate flash then you can disable all these by unchecking "Plugings" checkbox from General tab.