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As concern about online privacy grows, Mozilla is promising to let people cloak Internet activity in free Firefox Web browsing software being released early next year.
1 posted on 12/19/2010 9:24:30 AM PST by LucyT
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To: LucyT

Does not IE8 InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Filtering do the same thing ?


2 posted on 12/19/2010 9:29:27 AM PST by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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To: LucyT
In the meantime, this add-on may be helpful.
4 posted on 12/19/2010 9:35:51 AM PST by mikrofon (TACO Bella)
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To: LucyT

Wouldn’t it make sense for “Do not track” to be the default, and that you’d have to enable tracking instead of the other way around?


6 posted on 12/19/2010 9:40:23 AM PST by bigbob (.)
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To: LucyT

I’ve had good results with Ghostery in Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/9609/#reviews


7 posted on 12/19/2010 9:54:13 AM PST by PeteCat
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To: LucyT

These Firefox add-ons are good:

Noscript
CookieSafe
Better Privacy
Ghostery
Googlesharing
Adblock Plus
Refcontrol
OptimizeGoogle
Geasemonkey (w/ Google anonymizer & Google tracking B-gone scripts)


9 posted on 12/19/2010 10:01:27 AM PST by Spirochete (Sic transit gloria mundi)
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To: LucyT
For the really paranoid I suggest Tor:

https://www.torproject.org/torbutton/index.html.en

But if you decide to allow your PC to be a Tor exit node I suggest you read this first: Why you need balls of steel to operate a Tor exit node

11 posted on 12/19/2010 10:34:09 AM PST by epithermal
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To: LucyT

tor enabled on my win 7

produces a proxy server error

and, thus, no connection.


13 posted on 12/19/2010 11:07:24 AM PST by ken21 (who runs the gop?)
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To: LucyT
Clint agrees its mighty stealthy but you must think in Russian


14 posted on 12/19/2010 11:21:21 AM PST by xp38
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17 posted on 12/19/2010 3:23:21 PM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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