[blueatlas]

Is there a browser extension that will show a visual indication of network activity so I know to take a closer look via the network monitor. I know - it might flash all the time, but at least I can take a closer look to assess the sites that I visit regularly.

[JKCalhoun]

Or a browser extension that captures your text in a floating window just over the focused text field — user has to hit Enter/Return before it moves it from floaty window to web document.

(Wondering if some built-in accessibility features in the OS might have something similar.)

[DerekBickerton]

Not browser extensions, but firewalls where you can monitor your traffic on the OS:

(TCP View is not really a firewall however, it just lets you inspect traffic, but not block it or filter it)

https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch (Linux)

https://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html (Mac)

https://www.glasswire.com/ (Windows)

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/tcpv... (Windows)

[dewey]

That doesn't really help you as if you want to use the website you already allow connections to that host and as far as I know these are mostly aimed at hostnames not the endpoint where the "creepy" request is being fired at.

[DerekBickerton]

> you already allow connections to that host

Correct. You could always have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin to mitigate JS snooping on sensitive info, so there is that. You can blacklist specific domains in uBlock too. We need something like Portmaster[0], but inside the browser as an extension.

[0] https://safing.io/portmaster/

[dewey]

That ship has sailed.

Apart from a few of us nerds on HN nobody will do that. In reality people have a hard time seeing the problem with re-using a password, making people decide which hostnames are okay or vet javascript files before allowing them is unrealistic and not the solution to the problem.