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  <h1>Pale Moon</h1>
  <p><a href="../articles/index.html">Back to catalog</a><br>
  <a href="/guides/palemoon.html">Mitigation Guide</a></p>
  <img src="../images/palemoon_logo.png" alt="Pale Moon logo">
  <p>
  Pale Moon is a fork of an old <a href="../articles/firefox.html">Firefox</a> version, before the user interface change that put off many people. Version 28.4 was used to
  write this article. This article replaces an old article (<a href="../articles/palemoon_old.html">here</a>).
  </p>
  <p>
  <h2>Spyware Level: <font color=yellow>Medium</font></h2>
  After following the <a href="/guides/palemoon.html">mitigation guide</a>, this software is <font color=lime><b>Not Spyware</b></font>.
  </p>
  <p>
  Connects to analytics services, and these requests can <b>only be avoided on subsequent runs</b>. Has block lists, search suggestions, and auto-updates.
  Sends SSL certificates from the sites you visit.
  </p>
  <h3>Google Analytics on Homepage</h3>
  <p>
  By default, Pale Moon's home page is set to https://palemoon.start.me, and it will automatically make a connection to it upon its first run.
  This page connects to Google Analytics, which can fingerprint and track you across the internet.
  </p>
  <img src="../images/pm_analytics.png" alt="Google Analyics requests sent by Pale Moon's default homepage">
  <h3>Blocking privacy-enhancing addons</h3>
  <p>
Pale Moon by default won't allow you to install the privacy-enhancing addon noscript, citing this rationale for
blocking such an imporant addon: <i>"NoScript is known to cause severe issues with a large (and growing) number of websites. Unless finely tuned for every website visited,
NoScript will cause display issues and functional issues. "</i><sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>
<b><font color=yellow>To disable this blocklist, set extensions.blocklist.enabled to false in about:config.</font></b>
  </p>
  <h3>Auto-updates</h3>
  <p>
  Pale Moon will automatically update itself, addons and search engines, as well as its blocklist.xml file with the addons it considers "malicious". Some of these can be turned off from the GUI, and some only from about:config.
  </p>

  <h3>Search Suggestions</h3>
  <p>The default search engine is the privacy-respecting DuckDuckGo, however search suggestions are enabled by default, which could send a request for every letter you've typed, all while you think it stays in-browser until you press Enter. Can be turned off by right-clicking the search bar.
  </p>

  <h3>OCSP querying</h3>
  <p>Will automatically check every site's SSL certificate to see if it is valid, which necessitates sending it to a third party. Can be turned off from the GUI.</p>
  <hr>
  <h2>Sources</h2>
  <p>

  <a name="1">1.</a>
  <a href="http://blocklist.palemoon.org/info/?id=pm112">This Add-on to your browser has been blocked or disabled.</a>
  <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180514135250/http://blocklist.palemoon.org/info/?id=pm112">[web.archive.org]</a>
  <a href="http://archive.is/EiraE">[archive.is]</a>
  <br>

  </p>
  <hr>
    <p><b>
  This article was created on 3/19/2019<br>
  </b></p>
     <p>
 If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), contact us on XMPP over in spyware@conference.nuegia.net, or visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/TheShadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. All contributions must be liscenced under the CC0 liscence to be accepted.
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thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<!DOCTYPE HTML>`
			`<html lang=”en-us”>`
			`<head>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`<link rel="stylesheet" href="../style.css">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<meta charset="UTF-8">`
			`<title>Spyware Watchdog</title>`
			`</head>`
			`<body>`
			`<h1>Pale Moon</h1>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`<p><a href="../articles/index.html">Back to catalog</a><br>`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<a href="/guides/palemoon.html">Mitigation Guide</a></p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<img src="../images/palemoon_logo.png" alt="Pale Moon logo">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`Pale Moon is a fork of an old <a href="../articles/firefox.html">Firefox</a> version, before the user interface change that put off many people. Version 28.4 was used to`
			`write this article. This article replaces an old article (<a href="../articles/palemoon_old.html">here</a>).`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
			`<p>`
			`<h2>Spyware Level: <font color=yellow>Medium</font></h2>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`After following the <a href="/guides/palemoon.html">mitigation guide</a>, this software is <font color=lime><b>Not Spyware</b></font>.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`Connects to analytics services, and these requests can <b>only be avoided on subsequent runs</b>. Has block lists, search suggestions, and auto-updates.`
			`Sends SSL certificates from the sites you visit.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
			`<h3>Google Analytics on Homepage</h3>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`By default, Pale Moon's home page is set to https://palemoon.start.me, and it will automatically make a connection to it upon its first run.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`This page connects to Google Analytics, which can fingerprint and track you across the internet.`
			`</p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<img src="../images/pm_analytics.png" alt="Google Analyics requests sent by Pale Moon's default homepage">`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<h3>Blocking privacy-enhancing addons</h3>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`Pale Moon by default won't allow you to install the privacy-enhancing addon noscript, citing this rationale for`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`blocking such an imporant addon: <i>"NoScript is known to cause severe issues with a large (and growing) number of websites. Unless finely tuned for every website visited,`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`NoScript will cause display issues and functional issues. "</i><sup><a href="#1">[1]</a></sup>`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<b><font color=yellow>To disable this blocklist, set extensions.blocklist.enabled to false in about:config.</font></b>`
			`</p>`
			`<h3>Auto-updates</h3>`
			`<p>`
			`Pale Moon will automatically update itself, addons and search engines, as well as its blocklist.xml file with the addons it considers "malicious". Some of these can be turned off from the GUI, and some only from about:config.`
			`</p>`

			`<h3>Search Suggestions</h3>`
			`<p>The default search engine is the privacy-respecting DuckDuckGo, however search suggestions are enabled by default, which could send a request for every letter you've typed, all while you think it stays in-browser until you press Enter. Can be turned off by right-clicking the search bar.`
			`</p>`

			`<h3>OCSP querying</h3>`
			`<p>Will automatically check every site's SSL certificate to see if it is valid, which necessitates sending it to a third party. Can be turned off from the GUI.</p>`
			`<hr>`
			`<h2>Sources</h2>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`<a name="1">1.</a>`
			`<a href="http://blocklist.palemoon.org/info/?id=pm112">This Add-on to your browser has been blocked or disabled.</a>`
			`<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20180514135250/http://blocklist.palemoon.org/info/?id=pm112">[web.archive.org]</a>`
			`<a href="http://archive.is/EiraE">[archive.is]</a>`
			`<br>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
			`<hr>`
			`<p><b>`
			`This article was created on 3/19/2019<br>`
			`</b></p>`
			`<p>`
fixed file paths, added notice 2020-02-08 10:09:18 +02:00			`If you want to edit this article, or contribute your own article(s), contact us on XMPP over in spyware@conference.nuegia.net, or visit us at the git repo on <a href="https://codeberg.org/TheShadow/SpywareWatchdog">Codeberg</a>. All contributions must be liscenced under the CC0 liscence to be accepted.`
thy first commit 2020-02-07 09:12:15 +02:00			`</p>`
fixed images mess up 2020-02-08 10:32:22 +02:00			`<a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/legalcode"><img src="../images/cc0.png" alt="CC0 Liscence"></a>`
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