[DBCJR]

A free market response to an overreaching government.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Doesn’t the Firefox addon “Ghostery” do pretty much the same thing?

[ConservativeMan55]

Duckduckgo.com also advertises its privacy features

[KC_Lion]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3cw4185gvM

[ShadowAce]

[The KG9 Kid]

There's always been TOR browser, but it's slow.

I have to wonder if even onion routing can spoof NSA snooping...

[Hardastarboard]

I’ve got No Script in place to stop at least some of that foolishness.

[Black Agnes]

And this stops the vacuuming at the router/ISP level how?

[TomGuy]

FF already has that, sort of.

Under Options >> Privacy

is a checkbox ‘Tell websites I do not want to be tracked’

==

I use abine.com’s DoNotTrackMe (free and it works with FF and IE).

http://abine.com/

[Norm Lenhart]

I don’t want this to sound insulting but there is little way around it.

Considering that the NSA/Google hire the absolute BEST coders on planet earth to manage/write the tracking/infiltration codes for the WAREHOUSES filled with CRAY and similar super computers, trying to stop them with code written by glorified script kiddies available for free download is not sound thinking.

[Vendome]

They should make a cookie dump that tosses trackers once you leave a site.

Better yet, they should should create TOR and VPN with like services.

Won’t fix the login issues but, will make the tracking of machines at or beyond the of”Edge” difficult

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

This doesn’t stop the government spies, just the corporate spies who are doing much the same thing. I remember a long time ago, American Online was very big on intensely tracking its users and anybody who entered their Internet turf.

Since then, it has gotten out of control. So many corporations want to track you that it’s surprising you are able to surf the web at all. At the same time, anti-tracking has become an industry in and of itself.

Right now, I am using:

AVG Do Not Track (came with the free antivirus)
Adblock Plus (Firefox add-on)
Betterprivacy (Firefox add-on against “super cookies”)

Then at intervals I use:

Adobe Website Storage Setting Panel (control panel on website), against Flash cookies.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html

Malwarebytes anti-malware freeware.

http://www.malwarebytes.org/

SuperAntiSpyware Free Edition

http://www.superantispyware.com/

or

Spybot Search & Destroy freeware.

http://www.safer-networking.org/

And finally, using registry repair software is a good idea, as after cleaning up and deleting a lot of bad stuff, there are often remnants polluting your registry.

[Boogieman]

“one advertising executive called it “a nuclear first strike” against the industry”

Well, boo friggin’ hoo. I don’t think anyone really pays much attention to internet ads anyway. They are annoying, disruptive, and easily muted, skipped, or ignored, if not blocked entirely. These ad agencies are defrauding clients by saying the ad got 100,000 views, when they know those figures are grossly inflated.

[Wuli]

there is a commercial product you can get for this now

it is “free” because its makers want to “protect” you by having you passed through their servers, from which you might get some ads placed in your browsers web pages, and you’d be given phony IP addresses, mutliple times before final destination, and then

THEY’d keep track of all that data on your Internet activity on THEIR servers

promising it will ONLY be used to help improve your Internet experience and keeping OTHERS (besides them) from tracking you

the come-on was pretty good, at first, and then the closer I got to a commitment the more I learned and the more I smelled a rat

then, as I backed out, I found their disclaimer that there were tools that some trackers can use to get past what that outfit would be doing to keep me “trackless”

and for that I should let THEM keep track of me and database the whole thing on their servers??? so that THEY can figure out how best to give me to the advertizing world instead of Google?? Nah.

[Lancey Howard]

So... What does that “Do Not Track” box (from ‘Tools”) I’ve been checking whenever I logged onto Firefox for the past 2 years do?

[fatima]

Can you use firefox on Mac’s?

[PapaBear3625]

Alternately, you could make more use of FireFox’s “private browsing” feature. In “private” mode, cookies do not get saved, which eliminates one big way in which companies track you.

[Still Thinking]

The decision comes despite intense resistance from advertising groups, which have argued that tracking is essential to delivering well-targeted, lucrative ads that pay for many popular Internet services.

You gotta spy on us to give us free stuff? That's the best you got?? Or rather, since I never buy any of your crap anyway, you gotta spy on me so my idiot neighbor can get free stuff? What are you, the Janet Reno of the internet?