Comodo Dragon ver 23.2 is now available for download

[Litster25]

@Jon79 post:40

I have made a mistake by deleting Privalert from my CD’s extensions… is there any way to get it back?
Thanks

Open your extensions page on Dragon.

My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Comodo > Dragon > Extensions > Then drag and drop priv_alert into the extensions page on Dragon.

[Melih]

@MarkXS post:36

Privalert options and totals in each category for blocking:

Screenshot by Lightshot

Advertising-612, Analytics-243, Widgets-132, Tracker-264, Privacy-18

Ghostery options and totals in each category for blocking:

Screenshot by Lightshot

Advertising-612, Analytics-243, Beacons-264, Privacy-18, Widgets-132

Identical counts, slightly different menu order, one category name changed.

So there is absolutely no relationship between these products? And no relation between the lists used? Despite the exact same number of items in each blocked category? (“Beacons” in one, “Trackers” in the other, identical items in each list.)

Sincere question. It is reasonable for users, reviewers, the press, and other stakeholders to see this similarity and wonder what is going on. Melih, I hear and respect your answer above. However, this still looks to be the same basic product, and if not, a product with nearly identical look-and-feel.

As someone who regularly does use and does promote and recommend Comodo products, but not from the perspective of a “Comodo Fanboy”, I would sincerely like to know what is the relationship between Ghostery and Privalert. As, I suspect, will others.

It is entirely possible that you solved the exact same problem in the externally-appearing nearly-identical manner and independently obtained the exact same counts of threats in the exact same categorization schema. However that is a lot of supposition and not the obvious answer.

(note to mods: Please do not attack, block me, delete, or remind me that “you are on our list” simply because I am making a legitimate question and request for clarification on what is the biggest new feature of this release. At least without thinking about what you are doing if you so do, and the perception thereof. I am not attacking anybody or anything here. I am asking for clarification beyond the short CEO statement above as to why your product looks and functions near-identically to a product from somebody else. Unlike Chromium, Ghostery’s base code is not open source, so the “Dragon looks like Chrome” doesn’t answer it. Someone else is surely going to ask the same thing, including perhaps the formal computer press, including perhaps Evidon Inc, so perhaps it makes sense to have a better answer prepared. Thank you.)

all these are companies…threats…
google analytics, blue kai etc etc…if there are 18…then there are 18 companies…we are extending the reach…if we missed any pls let us know.

[MarkXS]

Cool, go get’em. Like I said, it is working better than Ghostery. So I’m happy, just like Dragon is again working better than Chrome. (using chrome on this post because I was comparing and have way too many browsers open at once - Chrome, IE 10, Dragon, Firefox, Palemoon 64-bit).

I am overall quite happy with the light-resource-use addons to Chromium that you guys have been providing, like the Site Inspector, the Sharer, and now Privalert. Including how you moved the first two into the Chromium extension concept a few releases back, yet kept them private to Dragon. Very nice work!

Now if we only could have a print preview, without Google’s built-in (Foxit-derived) PDF code. Anything happy coming on that front? Got Foxit full running as my in-Dragon PDF plugin, but it can’t do the PDF-based print preview. I don’t need a PDF-based preview. Just a preview. With it built into Chrome, print preview extension development dried up. Add that to Comodo Dragon and you have removed what is likely the one missing “checklist item” for a lot of firms and individuals against using Dragon.

[Jon79]

OK, done
Many thanks :-TU

@Litster25 post:41

Open your extensions page on Dragon.

My Computer > Local Disk (C:) > Program Files (x86) > Comodo > Dragon > Extensions > Then drag and drop priv_alert into the extensions page on Dragon.

[trscsaeg]

@Andrei Ciubotaru post:28

Hello,

PrivAlert is not an Ad Blocker (but don’t worry, soon… ;)). Basically it analyzes the website and looks for any means of tracking(pixels, tags, scripts etc.). Normally, when you access a webpage, anything that is loaded should have something to do with what you see and do in that page. So, why anything else should be there?!

But in some cases you might Trust that owner of that website or you Know very well what all those tracking are for and you agree with. That’s why we allow you to whitelist them.

it might not be an adblocker but it is blocking ads. disable any adblocker extensions and enable privalert. go to youtube main page and it will block the ad at the top of the page. find a video with an ad in it on YouTube and enable privalert then reload the page. the ad is gone. then disable privalert and reload the page the ad is back

[khanyash]

By default it doesn’t blocks anything but just mentions the number of threats found on the page, right?

Under settings what all should I select so that there would be no probs browsing any sites specially banking sites as there are other average users who use this system & they will not know what to do if any site will have probs due to this?

And why the library autoupdate is by default disabled & not enabled?

[captainsticks]

Hi Naren,

@naren post:46

By default it doesn’t blocks anything but just mentions the number of threats found on the page, right?

Correct.

Under settings what all should I select so that there would be no probs browsing any sites specially banking sites as there are other average users who use this system & they will not know what to do if any site will have probs due to this?

I have all the [b]threats list[/b] selected and had no issues so far. This is not to say it is not possible.

And why the library autoupdate is by default disabled & not enabled?

Being the first release, Comodo are probably just waiting for feedback to see what settings us users prefer for default.

[khanyash]

@captainsticks post:47

Hi Naren,Correct.I have all the threats list selected and had no issues so far.
This is not to say it is not possible.Being the first release, Comodo are probably just waiting for feedback to see what settings us users prefer for default.

Thanxx for the info.

[captainsticks]

@Andrei Ciubotaru post:28

PrivAlert is not an Ad Blocker (but don’t worry, soon… ;)).

Hi Andrei,
This would make many people happy myself included, thanks. :-TU

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@naren post:48

Thanxx for the info.

You are welcome, enjoy Privalert.

[pykko]

This program is very popular in Romania also, and it would be nice to have it in our language also.

[Mark11]

I really don’t see what is all the fuss about Privalert blocking some ads ?
90% of users don’t even know about what is ad blocking (not to mention that even some IT people don’t know about it), so for us that are in this IT business this is a great thing.

We all know how things work and that big companys need to put ads or something similar to make money, but “us” this small margin of IT internet users should enjoy ad free and tracking free web no mater where we go. Thank God for adblock plus, privaler,disconnect, c&c and other similar (ff and chromium based) product that are here for us.

Some of you guys here sound like a worse capitalist boss in the world, hating all that’s free and what stops you for making my online profile :-TD

[mihal.v]

@Melih post:31

comodo AV was never licenced from CA.
Privalert is all Comodo…no licenses from anyone.

I think he means idea, not code. There is no need to licence an idea

@Andrei Ciubotaru post:28

Hello,
PrivAlert is not an Ad Blocker (but don’t worry, soon… ;)).

Let’s wait for AdBlock Plus to be renamed.