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Former Member
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We need not discuss the last few months snooping revelations people at the NSA and the stiff upper lip Brits at GCHQ have been engaged in [a poll might reveal the Brits are even less trusted than the Amis on spying matters, so here comes Mozilla with LightBeam to get reports where or links on viewed pages go to: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadge...r-on-the-web-8902269.html
----------------------------------------Case you have not Tor running, toyed with it and dismissed, you can use the Private Browsing session in Firefox [think to have seen that also in IE11 now]. Exit browser and all it removed... no browsing history, so they claim. P.S. Anyone knows where IPs starting with 2. come from? Every time I do a fresh Ubuntu install and then the repos' BOINC [now 7.2.7 with saucy 13.10], I get serial reports of failed remote attempts to connect to my client in the event log... 'failed' with emphasis! Did one whois search and low and behold what pops up from somewhere in the US: http://www.slideshare.net/parichay77/professi...97494259-software-testing ... someone is busy.    (And I'm not a world domination government conspiracy theorist, it's just the Anglo-Americans would love to be in charge ;) edit: A Review link http://www.pcworld.com/article/2057926/hands-...rn-for-privacy-geeks.html After install and FF restart, a new icon appears bottom right. Hit it and the spiderweb appears and builds within seconds as to who's looking. Works well on me fresh FF install on Ubuntu 13.10 [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Oct 26, 2013 12:26:49 PM] |
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Former Member
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These are my new favorite FF addons for privacy I thought I would share.
--Disconnect: blocks advertising trackers. Replaced Ghostery for me, as Ghostery is run by an advertising company and the creators of Disconnect are formerly from advertising. --Disconnect Search: This is my absolute favorite. Takes your searches through your favorite search engine, anonymizes them, encrypts them, and does not release search terms to target website. --Self-Destructing Cookies: I replaced Ghostery cookie blocking and other cookie blockers with this. Firefox has options to delete cookies upon browser exit, but I often leave FF open for a very long time. This allows you to set timers on cookies to auto-delete. Kept Better Privacy for Flash cookie deletion. |
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SekeRob
Master Cruncher Joined: Jan 7, 2013 Post Count: 2741 Status: Offline |
Firefox 48 adds additional AddOn security: http://betanews.com/2016/08/02/firefox-48/ ... no more unsigned AddOn down-loading, lest you disable the signing requirement, at which time you're on your own
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